On Amitabh Bachchan's "Freedom" Comment Amid 'Pathaan' Row, It's Trinamool vs BJP

With SRK's movie as backdrop, Trinamool's Nussrat Jahan hits back at BJP's Amit Malviya, who took "tyrant" jibe at Mamata Banerjee over Big B's speech

Actor Amitabh Bachchan's comments in Kolkata — on "questions being raised on freedom of expression" — have sparked a Twitter fight between Bengal's Trinamool Congress and the Centre's ruling BJP, bitter rivals who accuse each other of "tyranny".  The signs of a TYRINNICAL RULE include banning movies, detaining journalists, and punishing common people for speaking the truth.CAPPING Freedom of Speech and Expression means just that.All this under the BJP regime while Mr @amitmalviya is busy accusing others of the same. https://t.co/by9FXVAuHw

The fight comes in the backdrop of BJP leaders' boycott calls against 'Pathaan', the upcoming movie by Shah Rukh Khan, who was on the stage at the Kolkata film fest besides Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. 

Trinamool MP Nussrat Jahan today hit back at BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya, who had tweeted: "Amitabh Bachchan's words couldn't have been more prophetic since they were spoken in Kolkata, with Mamata Banerjee on the dais. It is like holding a mirror to the tyrant."

Ms Jahan quote-tweeted it and said "signs of tyrannical rule include banning movies, detaining journalists, and punishing common people for speaking the truth".