New Delhi: Celebrated lyricist, screenwriter Javed Akhtar has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a ‘fascist’.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Akhtar said so when he was asked if he feels Modi was a fascist.
“Of course, he is. I mean, fascists don’t have horns on their heads. Fascist is a thinking. And thinking that ‘we are better than others and whatever problems we have, it is because of these people’… the moment you hate people in wholesale, you’re a fascist,” he said.
He was accompanied by filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who was asked if India was Islamophobic.
Bhatt said that the phobia in India was manufactured as he feels that average Indian is not so frightened of a Muslims.
“I mean, that kind of a fear has been crafted, has been structured; day in and day out, mediapersons out there, the pliable channels, are working round the clock to create ‘the other’. They need ‘the other’ to stay in power. And to hate the Muslim is the lifeline of the BJP. Let’s not mince our words.” he said.
