Anti-CAA Protests at Jamia Millia Islamia University: John Cusack, Rajkummar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar Express Their Opinions and Slam Violence On Students (Read Tweets)
Students of Jamia Millia Islamia University had to face the wrath of the Delhi police after, protests against the Citizenship Ammendment Act, allegedly, turned violent. Usual vocals like Swara Bhasker and Konkona Sen Sharma had opened up. Now joining them are Anurag Kashyap, Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana, Jim Sarbh amongst others.
If you read the news, or are on any social media, you should be at least mildly aware of the situations unfolding across the nation. Students of Jamia Millia Islamia University had to face the wrath of the Delhi police after, protests against the Citizenship Ammendment Act, allegedly, turned violent. Bollywood has a tendency to awfully be quiet over the matters as such. But today, many actors and filmmakers and other artists took to their social media to voice their opinion. Many outright condemned how the police has reacted to the situation. Many have asked for peaceful protests.
Earlier, usual vocals like Swara Bhasker and Konkona Sen Sharma had opened up about the matter at hand on Twitter. Now joining them are Anurag Kashyap, Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana, Jim Sarbh amongst others.
Rajkummar Rao was one of the first to tweet
Ayushmann Khurrana called protests turning violent as counterproductive
Jim Sarbh asked protesters to stand up against divisive politics
Riteish Deshmukh expressed solidarity with the students
Dia Mirza also stands with the students
Filmmaker Onir retweeted Dia's post
Gul Panag's Stand...
Ashwin Mushran joked about Bollywood making a film on the current state
Vir Das also said something on similar lines
Manav Kaul penned a poem
Vikrant Massey stands with Jamia
Atul Kulkarni said
Rannvijay Singha called it scary
Manoj Bajpayee condemned the violence
Anurag Kashyap called the governmen fascist
Also, there were some tweets from celebrities from the other end of the spectrum. Comic actor Suresh Menon retweeted Anurag's tweet and asked him to not make anti-government comments.
Sonu Sood said that public properties should not be destroyed
Bhumi Pednekar said this
But Bhumi also said this
Support also came from an unlikely place. Hollywood actor John Cusack extended solidarity with Jamia students
Bollywood biggies like Priyanka Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Ranveer Singh have not expressed their opinion yet. Akshay Kumar mistakenly liked a tweet supporting the violence by the police. Stay tuned to LatestLY for more updates.
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