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BIG STORY                                                               JANUARY 01, 2021  |       The Indian Eye                          7



































































         gOOdBye, 2020: lOngest year ever!




                                             pulsion or fraud has found no                                            ing online mediums, including
        >> Continued from previous page...   acceptability  or  respectability    onLIne medIa under the              films and news content, under
        Chief  Minister  Yogi  Aditya- anywhere in the country,” The                          watCh                   the  ministry  of  information
                                                                                     In  November,  the  govern-
        nath’s government okayed the  Bahujan  Samaj  Party  (BSP)               ment  issued  an  order  bring-      and broadcasting. Meaning on-
        ordinance,  proposing  a  maxi- chief said in a Hindi tweet.                                                  line streaming services such as
        mum  punishment  of  10  years                                                                                Netflix, Amazon Prime Video,
        for “love jihad” related offenc-                                                                              Hotstar,  among  others  would
        es, it triggered a political row.                                                                             be now regulated by the Cen-
            While  BJP  leader  Deven-                                                                                tre.
        dra  Fadnavis  said  incidents                                                                                    It soon became a social me-
        of  “Love  Jihad”  were  taking                                                                               dia frenzy with critics claiming
        place in the country and there-                                                                               that the move will have adverse
        fore, laws to curb the practice                                                                               consequences as it could kick-
        were  justified,  the  Opposition                                                                             start an era of more frequent
        accused the governing BJP of                                                                                  and stricter censorship on on-
        pursuing “communal agenda”.                                                                                   line content.
        BSP  President  Mayawati  too                                                                                     Several  Bollywood  film-
        asked  UP  government  to  re-                                                                                makers too criticized the gov-
        consider its new anti-religious                                                                               ernment’s  order  and  called  it
        conversion ordinance.                                                                                         “unacceptable”. Karan Anshu-
            “The new ordinance intro-                                                                                 man, director of ‘Inside Edge’,
        duced in haste by the UP gov-                                                                                 and  ‘Mirzapur’  tweeted  that
        ernment  against  love  jihad  is                                                                             viewers  and  creators  should
        riddled with doubts since reli-       artist manas Kumar sahoo created sand art on the occasion of new year   come  together  and  challenge
        gious conversion through com-                       at Golden beach in puri on thursday. (ani)                censorship.


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