The organisers of Gurgaon Comedy Festival in Haryana on Monday removed comedian Munawar Faruqui from their list of performers after they g...
The organisers of Gurgaon Comedy Festival in Haryana on Monday removed comedian Munawar Faruqui from their list of performers after they got “repeated calls” and messages opposing his participation, The Indian Express. Faruqui was supposed to participate in a three-day festival, scheduled from December 17 at Airia Mall.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Haryana head of information technology department Arun Yadav filed a police complaint against Faruqui on Monday.
“A complaint has been received against Faruqui, raising objection to his participation in a festival to be held in Gurgaon and regarding content of some of his videos online,” said Assistant Commissioner of Police Aman Yadav. He added that the police will discuss the complaint with the organisers and mall authorities before taking action, the Hindustan Times reported.
Mubin Tisekar, the co-founder of The Entertainment Factory, which is organising the Gurgaon Comedy Festival, said that the event managers removed Faruqui from the show’s line-up as they did not want to hurt anyone’s sentiments or put the public in danger, The Indian Express reported.
“The decision was taken yesterday and we made changes on the poster and ticketing platform,” he added.
Tisekar, however, said that he did not want to comment on who was calling or complaining about Faruqui’s involvement in the show.
Meanwhile, the police complainant by Yadav said that Faruqui had been continuously hurting...
