Protest photos taken down by Bikaner House: Raihan Vadra
New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Raihan Vadra, the son of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi and businessman Robert Vadra, alleged on Wednesday that he was asked to remove some photographs from his exhibition hours before it was scheduled to open at Bikaner House in New Delhi.
The photographs were part of his exhibition, "No Idea is Final", which features wildlife and street photography. Vadra said he was asked to remove images documenting recent protests in the Capital; they were absent when the exhibition opened on Wednesday.
"Yesterday [Tuesday] I was contacted by the management of Bikaner House raising objections towards the 'political nature' of the protest images and was requested to remove them," Vadra, 26, wrote in a statement that he circulated at the opening of the exhibition.
Vadra said the proposal approved by the Bikaner House management on June 30, 2026, clearly stated the exhibition would feature images depicting "themes of choice, control, and unity". "The photos are simply a visual documentation of the people and the armed forces at the protests with no added commentary. Not a single photograph taken by me contains any derogatory or inflammatory comment of any kind," he said.
Despite this, Vadra alleged, he was asked to remove "50% of the artworks".
He alleged that Rohit Kumar, the principal resident commissioner of Bikaner House, toured the rooms where the photographs were displayed before purportedly "calling the Rajasthan chief secretary" and another officer at the chief minister's office.
"[They] finally informed me that I would have to remove all works deemed by him to be political by 3.30pm today, failing which the show would stand cancelled," he wrote.
Bikaner House is owned and managed by the Rajasthan government. Rajasthan chief secretary V Srinivas did not respond to requests for comment by the time of going to print Vadra also said he was asked to remove two photographs depicting the Indian flag, which he refused to do. "I will not take down a photo of the Indian flag."...
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