00:00The one controversy that again brought the BJP and the Congress showdown to the surface was
00:05what happened with Rehan Vajra's exhibition at the Bikaner House.
00:10And speaking exclusively, Robert Vajra, the father of Rehan Vajra,
00:15and of course the husband of Priyanka Gandhi Vajra,
00:17told me a short while back that he blames it on the Bikaner House.
00:22And he says that they did not do their due diligence
00:25because a PDF with photographs, everything was sent to them.
00:28I did question him about the guidelines as well.
00:31Here's why and what Robert Vajra is saying on this.
00:35Because the Congress is while defending Rehan Vajra and the exhibition,
00:38they are charging at the BJP of censorship.
00:41The Bharatiya Janata Party is now claiming that look how guidelines were broken.
00:46The BJP is quoting a letter where they say that when the proposal was sought,
00:49it was sought on wildlife and nature pictures.
00:52And for some reason, protests were added at the last minute.
00:56Let's listen in to this big exclusive about what was being said.
01:01Remember this at a time also came when a Kerala chief minister has said,
01:06if the Dachshund capital Delhi doesn't let you host the event,
01:09come over, we'll give you that opportunity.
01:13And Rajiv Chandra Shekhar is asking, and who's a Kerala emile,
01:16why would you give such a red carpet to the dynastic family?
01:20Let's listen on to all these reactions that are coming in.
01:23And importantly, the exclusive of Robert Vajra speaking to India today.
01:30And Mr. Vajra, your son is clearly in the center of this controversy right now.
01:35Do you want to elaborate for us what happened?
01:38I'm sure as parents you were looking forward to this exhibition
01:40that had to be cancelled at the last minute.
01:44It's really unnecessary, all this attention.
01:48The thing is, a PDF file, like always, he's always exhibited there for the last six, seven years.
01:54And he's exhibited in different places.
01:55Even in Skinner House, they know what the content of things that he usually puts.
02:01And also this time, the protocol demands that you have to submit a PDF file a week ago,
02:07which was presented to them.
02:09They did not do their due diligence.
02:11And only when he started, obviously, when there was no objection,
02:16he invited people for a soft launch, people who he thought can promote this,
02:22as they always do.
02:25They make catalogs.
02:26They do it for interiors of hotels or various other people demand his work, right?
02:34And they buy his work.
02:35So, obviously, he invited all those people, keeping in mind that there was no objection
02:41for anything in that interim of the one week.
02:44And then, as soon as he starts putting it up, a few people see it on the 20th,
02:49I mean, as in, like, the organizers or whatever, the admin of the place.
02:53And then on 21st, I think only three hours, prior to the show opening, the commissioner comes
03:02and he says, oh, you know, that I'm not very satisfied with these pictures here,
03:08these black in my pictures here, that you'll have to remove it.
03:10So, there was no candid, there's no categoric reasoning why there's an objection to this.
03:18Are you saying, Mr. Vajra, that your son did send a PDF before the exhibition
03:23that had all the protest pictures also?
03:25I'm not going to make it up in the air, no?
03:26I mean, there's a protocol.
03:28You have to send the PDF to them.
03:29And they did not do their due diligence.
03:32Did it have the protest pictures, sir?
03:34Yes, everything, the contents of what we're going to be displaying is the PDF file
03:41of every time you display something, you have to provide them a PDF file.
03:47They did not do their due diligence.
03:49I don't know.
03:49You know, the chalta head behavior or whatever, yeah, it's fine, we've approved it.
03:53You go ahead with it.
03:55You know, kind of thing that it's like because he's done so many times that, I mean,
03:59they said the same, that's what was understood.
04:01So, obviously, there's no objection for a whole week.
04:04They did not do their due diligence.
04:06And only when he starts setting it up, they look at something.
04:08Then they went back to their higher ups and they told them whatever.
04:13This is a tremendous, a gallery, a tremendous work in this way.
04:19So, Prashnachin is up to say, why are there going to be a contribution of this way?
04:23There's no controversy, there's no trigger, there's no protest trigger or there's no violence.
04:29It's just an expression, a creative expression, it's also a connection to it.
04:33It shows that somewhere, somewhere, this over-enthusiasm, curb the freedom of expression,
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