Union Minister Arun Jaitley today stepped up attack on those returning awards by calling them “rabid anti-BJP elements” and stuck to his guns that their protest is a “manufactured rebellion”.
Rejecting the charge that an atmosphere of intolerance was prevailing in the country, he said there was normalcy in the country.
He condemned all the incidents being dubbed as examples of intolerance and called for strict action against those responsible for it.
The Union minister, however, said there was a disproportionate political reaction to the incidents taking place in the country and asked those returning awards if their conscience had pricked when corruption and scams to the tune of lakhs and crores of rupees were taking place during the UPA rule.
On the students of FTII withdrawing agitation and resuming academic activities, Jaitley welcomed the move and said the government wanted to make FTII an institution of excellence.
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