Indian veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah slams PM Modi for promoting hatred in India

June 9, 2022

By The South Asia Times report

NEW DELHI: Renowned Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah has criticized the ruling BJP party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for promoting hatred against Muslims in the country.

In an interview with NDTV, Shah said PM Modi knock some good sense into these people.

"I wish that the hatemongers that the PM follows on Twitter…He has to do something. He needs to step in to prevent the poison from growing,” Shah told the broadcaster.

His reaction came after BJP Spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal insulted to Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that drawing furious reaction and protest from several Muslim countries including Pakistan, Turkiye, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Iran, Jordan, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Maldives, Libya and Indonesia.

Despite Muslim world protest, the Indian Modi government so far didn’t condemn its party leaders nor publically apologized to Muslims.

Muslims across the world have already announced to boycott Indian products and hundreds of shops in the Arab world removed the Indian products from shopping malls.

On Tuesday, another BJP Youth leader Srivastava insulted to Holy Prophet during the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister H.Amirabdollahian to New Delhi.

H.Amirabdollahian on Wednesday met PM Modi and his Foreign Minister.

Later Police said they arrested the Srivastava.

However, earlier in a video statement, Sharma said that the Home Minister Amit Shah has called her and assured their full support of the government after the Muslim world's reaction.

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