Security beefed up outside Javed Akhtar’s house after controversial remark on RSS

a group of people standing in front of a crowd posing for the camera© Provided by Jagran EnglishMumbai | Jagran News Desk: Following the controversy around Javed Akhtar’s remarks on the RSS, security was beefed up outside the residence of the writer-lyricist in Mumbai on Monday after a Maharashtra BJP MLA demanded an apology from him over his remark, a police official said. Akhtar had allegedly compared the RSS with the Taliban during an interview.

Adequate police bandobast has been done outside Akhtar’s residence near the ISKCON temple in the Juhu area, the official said, adding that security personnel, including women constables, were deployed outside the lyricist’s home.

Akhtar recently told a news channel that the right-wing all over the world has an uncanny similarity. “The Taliban want an Islamic country. These people want to make a Hindu Rashtra,” the lyricist said without naming the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).