Comedian Jagdish said this sort of “fascist outlook” should be rejected outright.
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She also slammed the actor for saying that religious intolerance in the country won’t let it become a superpower.
Shah Rukh’s wife Gauri Khan shared a snap of the superstar cutting his birthday cake at midnight in a low key affair of sorts with his family while the madness continued outside his house until the wee hours.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Giriraj Singh launched a fresh attack on him.
The attack against Shah Rukh by BJP leaders came notwithstanding the refrain of BJP’s top brass in the recent weeks that partymen avoid sensitive comments. Yogi Adityanath also compared the 50-year old actor to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed.
Shah Rukh had on Monday added his voice to the protest by the intelligentsia against the “climate of intolerance” and said that there was “extreme intolerance” in the country.
Earlier, another BJP leader Kailash Vijayavargiya had tweeted saying that the Shah Rukh Khan’s “soul” is in Pakistan though he lives in India and also called him as an “anti-nationalist”.
But when probed even more, the actor replied politely, “I can only say that my mother is Susheela Charak and my father is Salim Khan”. “I retract my yesterday’s tweets”, Vijayvargiya had said in a tweet on Wednesday.
Vijayvargiya had come under attack over his tweets against Shah Rukh Khan with Trinamool Congress spokesperson Derek O’Brien terming them “sickening”. I think it will be better if I answer that question…Anything that is intolerant or anything that is said without correct evidence is completely unacceptable.
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In the meantime, he said, “Respect those who returned awards, but I don’t have to”. “What kind of double-faced politics is this?” said the Shiv Sena in a bristling editorial in their party’s mouthpiece Saamna. Derek had said in a statement.
