Several Bollywood celebs like Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Karan Johar, Ekta Kapoor have stood by the government over its stance on Rihanna and social activist Greta Thurberg tweets criticising how the Modi government is tackling the protests. However, superstar Shah Rukh Khan is yet to comment on the ongoing controversy. Now, a video of Shah Rukh Khan from an event is going viral, when he called farmers the ‘real heroes’.The clip is taken from a video covering the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup 2017, which was held at Pune’s Balewadi stadium on August 6, 2017. While it was Aamir Khan who had organised the event, Shah Rukh Khan came in as a special guest to support his friend and offer several kind words of encouragement and praise for the agricultural warriors.
Speaking in Hindi, he hailed the farmers present during the event. Speaking on drought eradication, he had said, “If you farmer brothers and sisters had not contributed your efforts to make this idea a reality, it would never have taken off the way it has. I also appreciate the efforts that you make in growing grain, but sometimes God or Allah or nature does not grant you the thing that you need most, which is ample rainfall. But today you have proved that you can raise a crop of water itself. Moreover, you have come together despite being of various castes, creeds and beliefs, thus proving that India is united.”
Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan have not spoken out on the issue yet. Yesterday, Salman Khan broke his silence on the ongoing issue, when faced with a question about the farmers' protests. "The right thing should be done. The most correct thing should be done. The most noble thing should be done," Salman Khan said briefly, responding to a question at the launch of a music show in Mumbai. Since late November, thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at Delhi's borders demanding that the three new farm laws, which they say will leave them at the mercy of corporates, be repealed. The government, which has failed to end the protest after several rounds of talks, has made efforts to have them removed or have their access to information and supporters cut off in a crackdown that escalated after clashes in Delhi between protesters and the police on Republic Day last month.