The Hollywood celebrity will sit down with the head of state to see his most recent box office smash, “Jailer.” “The CM and I will watch the movie together. ”It is God’s blessing that the movie is becoming a hit,” Rajinikanth had told ANI prior to his visit to the state capital before he left for his trip there.

Earlier in the day, a special showing of the film “Jailer” was conducted in Lucknow, and Adityanath’s deputy, Keshav Prasad Maurya, was in attendance.

#WATCH | Actor Rajinikanth meets Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath at his residence in Lucknow pic.twitter.com/KOWEyBxHVO

— ANI (@ANI) August 19, 2023

“I was also afforded the opportunity to view the film “Jailer. ” The Deputy Chief Minister was cited as adding, “I had watched many of Rajinikanth’s films, and he is such a talented actor that even though there is not much content in the movie, he still increases the importance of the film with his performance.” PTI reported that the Deputy Chief Minister made these comments.

Rajinikanth, who travelled to Lucknow in order to attend the movie’s premiere there. He also spoke with Anandiben Patel, the governor of Uttar Pradesh.

“Popular actor and director Rajinikanth met governor Smt Anandiben Patel at Raj Bhavan,” the governor’s X handle stated. “Raj Bhavan”

On Sunday, the legendary figure, who is now 72 years old, will travel to Ayodhya. “The show will go on as scheduled. “(Yes, the programme is going to be tomorrow),” he confirmed to ANI.

Rajinikanth was in Jharkhand just before he made his way to Uttar Pradesh. On Friday, he made a pilgrimage to the well-known Chhinnamasta Temple in the state and made offerings there. In addition, he went to the ‘Yagoda Ashram’ in Ranchi and meditated there for one hour. After this, he went to the Raj Bhavan to have a discussion with the Governor of Jharkhand, C. P. Radhakrishnan.

At the box office, ‘Jailer’ has been raking in the dough, with a total revenue of 235.65 crore rupees as of the 17th day of its release on August. In the movie, Nelson serves as the film’s director, and Rajinikanth plays the role of a father seeking vengeance for the death of his police officer son.

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In addition to him, the film also stars in crucial characters Priyanka Mohan, Tamannaah Bhatia, Ramya Krishnan, Yogi Babu, Vasanth Ravi, and Vinayakan.

Cameo appearances by Mohanlal, Shivarajkumar, and Jackie Shroff are all significant.

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Senior party figures cited incidents of violence against women in states ruled by the opposition, such as West Bengal and Bihar in addition to Rajasthan.

The BJP in West Bengal claimed that two indigenous women had been attacked and stripped in the Malda area. According to the Trinamool Congress, the incident occurred locally and was a result of the women’s alleged theft.

MS Malda Six people were detained after a suo motu case was filed, according to Pradeep Kumar Yadav. A gang of ladies were allegedly seen abusing two other women in the event on a video clip. According to a senior police officer, the women were beaten by neighbourhood shopkeeper women after being apprehended on suspicion of shoplifting.

Anurag Thakur, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, accused opposition politicians of being silent on assaults against women in states that are not BJP-ruled during a press conference he gave at the BJP headquarters in Delhi.

According to him, Rajasthan is currently “the number one state in crimes against women.” “In the last four years, Rajasthan has recorded over 1 lakh incidences of crimes against women. In Rajasthan, there have been 33,000 incidences of sexual assault against women, according to Thakur.

Will Chief Minister (Ashok) Gehlot tender his resignation when his own minister claims that the CM has lost his authority, when a woman is murdered and burned in his home district, and when a woman is raped and left to die 5 km from his residence? Thakur asked in reference to the dismissal of a Rajasthan minister, Rajendra Gudha, hours after he criticised the state government on crimes against women.

After that, Thakur turned his attention to West Bengal, saying, “Mamataji, I don’t know if there is any’mamata’ (endeavour) left in your heart or not, but humanity was shamed when in Howrah’s Panchla area, more than 40 goons of the TMC paraded a woman naked on the day of the panchayat polls and the candidate contesting the election was beaten up, insulted.” The West Bengal Police have refuted this.

In the Begusarai district of Bihar, a young woman, according to Thakur, was molested.

“Whether it occurs in Manipur, Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal, or Chhattisgarh, crime against a woman is crime. They are indistinguishable. State action is required. However, all they want to do is play politics. They are playing politics instead of providing evaluations of the state they lead, he added, adding that “the country is watching.”

According to Thakur, the BJP was not avoiding a debate in Parliament, unlike what the opposition had claimed. “We are neither avoiding our obligation to do so nor avoiding taking part in the discussion. But at the very least, (the Opposition) ought to quit playing politics with crime against women. I kindly request that the opposition parties attend Monday’s session of Parliament, when there will be a discussion of the extensive list of crimes against women that have been reported in those parties’ states, he said.

Smriti Irani, the minister of state for women’s and children’s affairs, also mentioned West Bengal and Rajasthan. The fact that a minister spoke out against atrocities against women in Rajasthan yesterday is really frightening. He was abruptly let go by the Congress party. The video of two Dalit women being ruthlessly assaulted and stripped off in West Bengal’s Malda area, which is currently trending on the Internet, is equally terrible. In my opinion, the Congress was not interested in learning the truth regarding the crimes against women committed in Rajasthan. The Congress does not want a discussion (in Parliament) about the issues that have arisen in the state of Manipur because they are hiding the truth about them. Because it is desperate for a partnership with the TMC, the Congress is a silent observer of the killings of innocent people in the state of West Bengal,” she claimed.

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“You (the BJP) created the slogan ‘Beti Bachao’. Where is your current slogan? Manipur is on fire right now, as is the entire nation.The TMC head declared, “The honour of our womenfolk is being soiled, but the woman will expel you from the nation in the future elections.

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Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, asks the BJP, “You offered the ‘Beti Bachao’ slogan, where is your motto now. We want to show our support for the people of Manipur. Manipur is on fire right now, as is the entire nation. The defendants in the case of Bilkis Bano were freed on bond.

Her remark was made the day after top female wrestlers in the nation filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who was granted bail.

In addition, Mamata Banerjee spoke out against the early release of all 11 of the defendants who had received life sentences in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case. According to the remission policy of the Gujarati government, they were released in 2022.

The chief minister of West Bengal pledged her support for the Manipuri people, saying, “We want to assure every Manipuri that we are standing with them and that we would be with them at all times. The crimes taking place in Manipur deserve the strongest possible condemnation.

The TMC leader declared that her party has no interest in assuming power and added, “We just want this BJP regime to go.” Mamata Banerjee declared that she will use the opposition alliance INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) as the backdrop for her demonstrations against the government.

Abhishek Banerjee, the general secretary of the TMC, also declared that the party would hold a sizable demonstration in Delhi on October 2, Gandhi Jayanti, in protest of the federal government’s decision to withhold funding from the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) and other West Bengal-related programmes. Asserting that the newly formed opposition alliance would form the government in 2024, he expressed confidence in it.

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