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Maha: MVA Slams BJP As Filmfare-2024 Awards To Unveil In Gujarat

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Mumbai, Jan 17 (IANS) The Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) for taking away essential occasions to Gujarat because the stage is ready for the 69th Filmfare Awards-2024 to be held within the neighbouring state. The organisers introduced that the coveted 69th Hyundai Filmfare Awards in collaboration with Gujarat Tourism shall be held on the new GIFT Metropolis in Gandhinagar as a two-day glamour-filled extravaganza on January 27-28.

Hitting out on the BJP, the Congress’ Chief of Opposition (Meeting) Vijay Wadettiwar stated “this isn’t truthful” and known as it one more try to downgrade the significance of Mumbai by taking away the movie business, recognized world over as ‘Bollywood’ out of Maharashtra.

“That is an try to dilute the significance of Mumbai. Earlier, the industries of Maharashtra have been taken to Gujarat. Now the attention has fallen on the movie business,” stated Wadettiwar.

He stated Mumbai and Bollywood have an unbreakable bond and this resolution can have a huge impact on cine enterprise, the actors and employees which can be depending on the movie business.

Nationalist Congress Occasion Nationwide Spokesperson Clyde Crasto stated Gujarat is “stealing” every part from Mumbai and Maharashtra within the final couple of years, a number of large ticket initiatives have been ‘stolen’ final yr, and now the most recent being the celebrated Bollywood movie fraternity’s Filmfare awards.

“The Gujarat authorities’s invitation to Filmfare to carry the awards in Gujarat is simply one other ploy to remove the status of Mumbai and Maharashtra. It’s shameful that, as at all times, the BJP led Maharashtra Authorities is silent on this situation, like they’ve been when initiatives and monetary prospects have been being taken away from the state,” stated Crasto.

He stated that Gujarat can also be a state of India and it ought to prosper at all times, “however then why is the state and Central authorities not considering the identical for Maharashtra which can also be an Indian state?” In line with the organisers, the January 27 curtain-raiser shall be held on the Mahatma Mandir Conference & Exhibition Centre the place Bollywood technical awards shall be introduced, adopted by the primary glittering awards on the GIFT Metropolis on January 28.

The hosts for the reveals shall be veteran film-maker Karan Johar, actor Ayushmann Khurrana, tv celeb Manish Paul, plus performances by Kareena Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Kartik Aaryan, et al.

–IANS

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