Bollywood reacts on JNU Attack: Actors support the innocent students
Bollywood stars like Swara Bhasker, Riteish Deshmukh, Kriti Sanon, Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap and others condemn the masked-mob attack in JNU campus on Sunday.
The Twitter was flooded with #ShameOnBollywood that trended the last time when JNU students were attacked. The Netizens brutally trolled Bollywood stars for staying mum on a matter of national tension. Bollywood’s celebs were called out for being ‘spineless’, ‘cowards’ and ‘brainless’. Others like Farhan Akhtar, who did speak up on the matter were incessantly trolled for their lack of knowledge and interest in the subject.
This time the Bollywood star didn’t take too long to voice out their opinion of the pressing matter. Most of them including A-listers like Swara Bhasker, Taapsee Pannu, Anurag Kashyap, Shabana Azmi, Riteish Deshmukh, Neha Dhupia, Konkana Sen Sharma, R.Madhavan and Kriti Sanon took to the micro-blogging site as they shared their angst against the masked-mob attack in JNU.
It breaks my heart to see what happened at JNU! What’s going on in India is horrifying!! Students & teachers being beaten up & terrorized by masked cowards!! The constant blame game!Stooping so low for political agendas!Violence is NEVER a solution! How have we become so inhuman?
— Kriti Sanon (@kritisanon) January 6, 2020
such is the condition inside what we consider to be a place where our future is shaped. It’s getting scarred for ever. Irreversible damage. What kind of shaping up is happening here, it’s there for us to see…. saddening https://t.co/Qt2q7HRhLG
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) January 5, 2020
Hindutva terrorism is now totally out there . #JNUSU
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) January 5, 2020
#Fascists will try to delegitimize universities. They will create violence and spread lawlessness. They will then call for the shut down of centers of learning till they can take them over. They fear opinions and intellects. This is how the #Nazis did it too. Wake up! #JNUattack
— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) January 6, 2020
None of us can claim to be a citizen of a Democracy any more. That is clearly a lie.
— VISHAL DADLANI (@VishalDadlani) January 5, 2020
When is this madness going to end… what’s the price one can put on an innocent life. Frightening to see images of students and faculty members being attacked and hurt. This level of violence is unacceptable… #JNU
— Neha Dhupia (@NehaDhupia) January 5, 2020
I was very upset and angry. Violence has no place in this world we live in and especially with and students.. and those that attack women need to be dealt with savagely. https://t.co/P04Ym4MX3r
— Ranganathan Madhavan (@ActorMadhavan) January 6, 2020
Why do you need to cover your face? Because you know you are doing something wrong, illegal & punishable. There is no honour in this-Its horrific to see the visuals of students & teachers brutally attacked by masked goons inside JNU-Such violence cannot & should not be tolerated
— Riteish Deshmukh (@Riteishd) January 5, 2020
Urgent appeal!!!! To all Delhiites PLS gather in large numbers outside the Main Gate of JNU campus on Baba Gangnath Marg.. to pressure the govt. & #DelhiPolice to stop the rampage by alleged ABVP masked goons on JNU campus. PLS PLS share to everyone in Delhi!🙏🏿🙏🏿 9pm on 5th. Jan pic.twitter.com/IXgvvazoSn
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 5, 2020
How long will this be allowed to continue? How long will you turn a blind eye? How long will the defenceless be attacked in the name of politics or religion? Enough is enough. @DelhiPolice
— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) January 5, 2020
Students being used by political parties and their agendas is something this nation needs to address immediately. It’s heartbreaking to see kids being brutalised by power hungry politicians. #JNUViolence
— Ranvir Shorey (@RanvirShorey) January 5, 2020
On Sunday, masked goons force entered the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus with sticks and sledgehammers in their hands. The attackers, who have been identified as members of ABVP party, began attacking the innocent students and university professors on Sunday night. The three-hour rampagehas caused irrepairabel damage to student health and campus property.
A blood-covered face of the president of JNU student’s body, Aishe Ghosh has been surfacing the internet that has further outraged the students across the country. The students from various universities like FTII, AMU, Pondicherry University, Bengaluru University and Univerity of Hyderabad. Certain protests were also observed in prestigious universities of Columbia and Oxford.
While the JNU staff called the Delhi Police for immediate help, it was only two hours later that a team arrived at the site of the attack. Upon arrival, the Delhi Police conducted a flag march but couldn’t help much in arresting the masked culprits. Delhi Police is being accused of supporting the attackers as their inactivity and failure in arresting the students appears crystal clear.
