Shah Rukh Khan Continues to Maintain His Silence on Anti-CAA Protests, Tweets Christmas Wishes Instead With AbRam's Picture
While certain Bollywood celebrities came in support of the students and condemned the violence that broke out at these protests, big stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and others maintained their silence.
The past few weeks have been full of political turmoil given that students and citizens from various cities took to the streets to protest against CAA - Citizenship Amendment Act. The protests particularly took an ugly turn after things turned violent in Delhi's Jamia Milia University where Delhi Police took action against students with the use of teargas and batons. While certain Bollywood celebrities came in support of the students and condemned the violence that broke out at these protests, big stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and others maintained their silence. Video of Rapper Raftaar Supporting Anti-CAA Protests Is Going Viral.
The silence from Bollywood's superstar Shah Rukh Khan was particularly taken harshly by netizens mainly because he is an alumnus of Jamila Millia Islamia University. Radio jockey and actor Roshan Abbas even called out the actor on keeping his silence at such as crucial time and tweeted to Shah Rukh asking for a reaction but it was met with no response. Days after, Shah Rukh finally took to Twitter to share a new post and it isn't about Anti-CAA protests or anything remotely political. The actor shared a post relating to delayed Christmas wishes for his fans and posted a picture of his son AbRam. He wrote, "Was tied up with helping ‘Santa’ arrange gifts for the kids. So didn’t get time to wish you all a Merry Christmas. May all of you find maximum happiness in wotever source of happiness you have. Lov to everyone. PS.:Thks for this edit...Santa appreciates all the help he can get." Kangana Ranaut Gets Slammed by Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia For Her Statement on Anti-CAA Protests.
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While A-lister stars such as Shah Rukh, Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan among others stayed away from responding to the CAA protests, young actors such as Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra, Swara Bhasker took to social media to support the student protests. Twitterati too seemed to be divided on the issue of celebrities taking political stands, while some urged that they must issue statements, there were others who even trolled them for taking sides.
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