Bhubaneswar: The Sambalpur Unit of the BJP has lodged a complaint against film maker Ram Gopal Varma for his controversial remark against National Democratic Allaince’s candidate for Presidential election Draupadi Murmu.
Varma triggered a row with his tweet on Murmu, angering the BJP which lodged police complaints against him in different parts of the country.
RGV, as the filmmaker is popularly known, had made the controversial tweet on June 22. It reads “If Draupadi is the President who are the Pandavas? And more importantly who are the Kauravas?”
Similar complaints were lodged against RGV in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. Police said they would take necessary action on the complaint after seeking legal opinion.
Meanwhile, RGV clarified his remarks last week on Friday.
“This was said just in an earnest irony and not intended in any other way ..Draupadi in Mahabharata is my favourite character but Since the name is such a rarity I just remembered the associated characters and hence my expression. Not at all intended to hurt sentiments of anyone,” he tweeted.
In another tweet, RGV slammed the politicians for pulling each other down. “When all politicians are so busy in back stabbing and pulling each other down , one wonders when they will have time and energy to look into people’s problems which is their primary job,” he wrote.
