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RPI attacks Colors TV office over cartoonist
eviction
Thursday November 01, 2012 06:59:27 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Activists of Ramdas Athawale-led Republican Party of India (RPI) Thursday
pelted stones at the office of Colors TV channel here to reiterate
their demand for evicting cartoonist Aseem Trivedi from reality
show "Bigg Boss 6".
"Around 20 activists from our youth wing pelted stones at the
office of Colors TV located in suburban Andheri (in northwest
Mumbai). This is just a reminder to them (the channel) about our
demand to evict Aseem," party spokesperson Mayur Borkar told IANS.
A source from Colors channel confirmed the development and said
that the activists damaged glass windows of the office. However,
no one was injured and the damage was not severe, the source said.
According to Borkar, Athawale had met with the management of
Colors TV last week and it had assured the RPI that Trivedi would
be evicted from the Bigg Boss house Friday. Colors management,
however, refused to confirm or deny this.
When asked as to why stones were pelted at Colors office, Borkar
said: "We wanted to show them a preview of what could happen if
Aseem was not evicted from the Bigg Boss house tomorrow."
Athawale had raised objections to Colors TV channel including
Trivedi in the show as he had allegedly committed insults to
various symbols of India and denigrated the constitution.
Borkar earlier said Trivedi was unknown till he targeted various
Indian symbols like the tricolour, the Ashok Chakra, parliament
and the constitution.
"While the Maharashtra government may have let him off, he is
still unanswerable to us as he has denigrated the Constitution of
India, penned by the great Dalit leader Babasaheb Ambedkar," he
earlier said.
More than two months ago, Trivedi hogged the limelight after the
Maharashtra government slapped sedition charges on him for
sketching obscene cartoons denigrating the Indian constitution and
other symbols, during last year's Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption
crusade in Mumbai.
Trivedi was thrown into jail but after a public outcry, was
released. The sedition charges against him were quietly dropped.
Currently in its sixth season, "Bigg Boss" is a reality show where
contestants are locked inside the house for 98 days, away from the
comforts of their everyday lives, and without any communication
with the outside world. They have 70 cameras observing their
activities 24x7.
The show began with 15 contestants, and so far three of them --
Bhojpuri actor Dinesh Yadav, commoner Kashif Qureshi and actress
Sayantani Ghosh -- have already been voted out by the viewers.
There will be two evictions in the episode to be aired Friday.
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