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| Attack on India's cultural ethos'' |
| The Shiv Sena has described the act as an attack on India's cultural ethos
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| INDIA
, 17-April-2007
1:18:3 AM |
| Hollywood star Richard Gere's kiss to actress Shilpa Shetty during an AIDS awareness programme evoked strong protests in several cities while Shiv Sena activists stormed her film shoot in Mumbai with protestors describing the act as an attack on India's cultural ethos.
Activists, mostly of Hindu outfits, in Varanasi, Bhopal, Kanpur, Indore, Delhi and Mumbai burnt effigies of Mr. Gere and Ms. Shetty to give vent to their anger , calling it indecent behaviour.
In the capital, Shiv Sena activists converged at Jantar Mantar to express their resentment over the act while in Varanasi, several Shiv Sena and Bande Mataram Sangharsh Samiti activists as well as Muslims took to the streets.
In Mumbai, over 50 Shiv Sena activists converged at the Vashi railway station in Navi Mumbai where the film Metro was being shot and burnt an effigy of Ms. Shetty and shouted slogans against her, Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Ramrao Wagh said.
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