Pune: FTII students on Tuesday branded censor board chairman Pahlaj Nihalani as the 'propaganda machine' of the BJP-led government and urged Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore to seek his resignation.

Their demand - 20 days after ending their four-month long strike against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the institute's chairman -- comes in response to Nihalani's comment that he soon plans to bring out documentary evidence to expose FTII students as 'anti-nationals'.