BJP national president and Union minister J.P. Nadda trained his guns on the Kerala government on Sunday over the Justice Hema Committee report and asked why justice is delayed to the victims of the sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry.
Nadda further alleged that the committee report had specifically mentioned the involvement of several Communist party leaders in the scandal.
"Why delay in justice to the Hema Committee report? What is stopping them (the Kerala government)? What is haunting you? Because you are part and parcel of that... it is something you want to hide because your people are involved,” the Union minister said, addressing an event in Palakkad.
“I am very sorry to say that the Hema Committee report very specifically said that Communist party leaders are involved. The Chief Minister should come out and tell what really happened," Nadda said.
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The 235-page report, which contains chilling details of sexual harassment, exploitation, and ill-treatment of women in the Kerala film industry, has sparked off a political storm in the state with several actresses coming forward to narrate their ordeal.
The committee, set up by the Kerala government in 2017 in the wake of the sexual assault of an actress in Kochi, submitted its report in 2019. However, it took four years for the state government to make public a redacted version of the report last month after the intervention of the high court.
The report notes that the Malayalam film industry is controlled by a ‘power group’ of 10-15 male producers, actors and directors.
Following the report, actor Mohanlal and the entire executive committee of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) resigned, taking moral responsibility for the allegations against some of its members.
