PIOs lodge plaints over anti-Modi posters in Oz

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: May 16, 2023, 12:28 IST

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A group of Indians in Australia have taken up the issue of alleged offensive posters and banners put up against Prime minister Narendra Modi in their area and urged the authorities to get them removed immediately.

PIOs lodge plaints over anti-Modi posters in Oz

HYDERABAD: A group of Indians in Australia have taken up the issue of alleged offensive posters and banners put up against Prime minister Narendra Modi in their area and urged the authorities to get them removed immediately.
Prashanth Kadaparthi, who hails from Hyderabad, brought the issue to the notice of the local authorities of Paramatta in New South Wales.
“Such anti-social behaviour should be condemned and stopped.This is not acceptable in this place of multiculturalism,” Kadaparthi said.
He urged the federal, state and local government to bring the culprits to book so that such acts are not repeated.
“Hatred has no space in Australia,” he said.
Another Indian, Goverdhan Reddy Muddam, said these posters had been put up at three places in Harris Park and police have already been notified.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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