Tarun Gogoi slams BJP MP for comments against Shah Rukh Khan

GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expressed grave concern over BJP MP Yogi Adityanath’s attack on actor Shah Rukh Khan for his comment that there is extreme intolerance in the country. Adityanath had sought to draw a parallel between Khan and 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

“In a country like India where ‘secularism’ is one of the tenets of the Preamble, making such kind of remark stokes communal passion and vitiates communal amity,” said Gogoi. “Actor like Shah Rukh Khan who is a cultural icon and acted in several films to strike a friendly chord with our immediate neighbour, comparing him with terrorists does not go down well at the time when divisive forces are at work.”

Gogoi said the ministers and MPs of the NDA regime should desist from making such provocative comments to ensure that the country’s name doesn’t get besmirched due to flare-up between people of different faiths.