Mumbai, March 25 -- As the row over Kunal Kamra heated up, Nationalist Congress Party (SCP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Tuesday said freedom of speech needs to be upheld irrespective of ideologies and noted that the BJP has different yardsticks for when the party is in power and when they were in opposition.

Referring to a past incident, Pawar noted that leaders of the BJP who had defended Kangana Ranaut when she compared Mumbai to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were now riled up over Kamra's comments on Eknath Shinde.

"When the opposition was in power, Kangana Ranaut (BJP MP) made a statement comparing Mumbai to PoK. At that time, Devendra Fadnavis had a very different reaction, terming the action against her unfair, despite it being an anti-nationa...