Photographer Raihan Vadra, son of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has alleged that officials at a government-run cultural venue in Delhi ordered the removal of photographs documenting recent protests, hours before his exhibition was due to open on Wednesday.

Mr Vadra said the management of the Bikaner House, which is owned by the Rajasthan government and managed by a state-established society, objected to the “political nature” of the images, despite having approved his exhibition proposal months earlier.

The removal left large sections of the exhibition No Idea Is Final without photographs, with empty frames and bare walls where the works had been displayed.

In a statement shared on social media, Mr Vadra said the Bikaner House management had “forced [him] to remove the bulk of the artworks” from No Idea Is Final five hours before it was due to open.

“The photos were of the youth protests in Delhi. Apparently, the content is ‘objectionable’,” he wrote.…