Heptullah slams UPA govt for allowing to make BBC docu

March 07, 2015 17:09

Union Minister Najma Heptullah today slammed the previous UPA government for allowing to make the controversial BBC documentary on the 2012 Delhi gang rape incident, saying it did not check the parameters, script or nature of the documentary being made.

"When the previous government gave permission for the film, it should have checked what are the parameters, the script and what they were making. There should have been some control but it failed to do it," she told reporters here, strongly supporting Home Minister Rajnath Singh's stand on the issue.

"The action taken by the Home Minister I think is a strong step... whatever steps the government takes keeping various things in mind, it will be right," she said.

Filmmakers coming from outside, she contended, make films from their own perspectives. They do not present the films from the Indian context nor keep local issues in mind while making a film, she said.

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