new delhi accusing the government of policing peoples thoughts opposition parties on sunday lashed out at the ngma and the ministry of culture for allegedly not allowing veteran actordirector amol palekar to complete his speech when he began to criticise the ministry for reportedly scrapping the advisory panel at the gallerys mumbai and bengaluru centresa video available on social media purportedly showed palekar criticising the ministry at the opening of an exhibition in memory of artist prabhakar barwe on february 8 for reportedly scrapping the advisory panel while his speech remained incomplete due to interruptions the full text has been circulating on social media for the last two dayswhen contacted national gallery of modern art director general adwaita gadanayak said the advisory committees of ngma mumbai bengaluru and delhi have not been dissolvedtheir terms have ended recently and they are in the process of being reconstituted for artists whose works were being showcased it was not less than a wedding it is a big event in their lives it was not the right platform for him palekar to raise such issues gadanayak told ptiasked if any action will be taken against those who interrupted palekars speech he said we will do somethingat the opening of the exhibition inside the empty box in mumbai on friday palekar said many of you may not know that this retrospective will be the last show decided by the advisory committee of local artists and not by some bureaucrat or an agent of the government with an agenda of either moral policing or proliferation of certain art commensurate with an ideological inclinedespite being asked to stop palekar went on to mention that writer nayantara sahgal was invited to speak at the marathi literary convention recently but at the last minute the invitation was withdrawn because what she was going to say was slightly critical of the situation around us are we creating the same situation herehitting out at the government congress leader kapil sibal said this was the acchhe din that prime minister narendra modi had promised and alleged that the government had taken away the right of the common man to speakthere are many things happening in this country which have never happened before amol palekar was not allowed to speak in cases where big people are accused in those cases cbi does not appeal institutions like cbi and ed are being destroyed anyone who they feel are against them are slapped with nsa sedition cases served ed notices i have never seen this kind of environment we will all suffer the consequences he saidhis party colleague abhishek manu singhvi in a tweet termed it an effort to silence dissent is india being redefined are institutional pillars of democracy trying to silent the dissent of people sic he wrote on the mircoblogging sitesamajwadi party chief akhilesh yadav said why does the bjp want to police peoples thoughts and opinions and control what they eat wear say and do they want to make india monochrome