Indian stand-up comic set by freedom of speech with Parody song

• Kamra’s song angered the workers of Sinter Sidna Sai Sena.
• Mass media say Kamra refuses to appear before the police in the country’s capital.
• Shinde does not support violence, adds that Kamra’s jokes were not in good taste.

Mumbai: Indian comedian Kunal Kamra faces police check for a show that has criticized a key political and ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, raising concerns about the limits of speech freedom in the world’s largest democracy.

The subsequent violence caused comments about social media and the primary moment, even when Kamra refused to apologize to the accusation that the use of the term “traitor” referred to Eknath Shinde, the deputy chief minister of the richest state.

“I am not afraid of this mob and I will not hide under my bed, waiting for this to die,” said Kamra, a well -known Modi critic, with more than 6 million social media subscribers, in a statement on Monday.

Kamra’s parody song for a traitor did not recognize anyone, except for Hardline Hindline Hindline Hindline Hindu Nationaist Sena Sena, who gathered the performance site and complained to police that his act had defamed the leader.

The media said Kamra refused to appear before the Police in the Mumbai financial capital, citing threats of death to him by party members and requested a week to do so.

Officers handling the investigation did not respond Reuters phone calls to request comments.

Reuters could not arrive immediately at Shinde for comments.

Shinde, who went up to Shiv Sena, a long -term ally of Modi Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision, said he did not support violence by his party workers, but added that Kamra’s jokes were not in good taste.

During the weekend, its supporters gathered the habitat studio in the northwestern suburb of Khar in Mumbai, where Kamra had executed, forcing them to throw them down.

On Wednesday, about twelve police rushed out of the studio, the black mark.

Shinde became head of western state Maharashtra in 2022, helping him bring it under Modi’s control, after a mechanical uprising in the party when he broke his ties with BJP. Took the alternate role in a later administration.

Supporters conveyed his identity from the features mentioned in Kamra’s song.

Many BJP legislators warned against abuse of freedom of speech.

“The freedom of your speech cannot be used to personally attack someone else,” said Yogi Adityanath, the lead minister of the densely populated state of Uttar Pradesh, who supported Shinde.

But Kamra garnered support to social media and elsewhere, drawing over 6 million views for a YouTube video of performance and over 58,000 comments within two days.

Many spectators gave him money, supporting his attitude without apologies.

Kamra is not foreign to the dispute, having faced several criminal cases and even a ban on six -month airlines in 2020 after breaking a journalist who was considered close to BJP on a plane.

As the stand-up comedy has become increasingly popular among bourgeois educated Indians, the ridicule of prominent evidence is causing complaints from hard-line groups.

Last month, the Supreme Court ordered India’s top podcaster to stop until the next notice, days after his charges for a stand-up comedy.