Shah Rukh Khan took to social media to remember the values of “truth” on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and wrote, “If this Gandhi Jayanti there is One ideal we would like our children to follow, in good times, bad times and all the time....it should be Hear no bad...see no bad....speak no bad! Remembering the value of truth on Gandhiji’s 151st Birth Anniversary.”To this, the actor’s ‘Fan’ co-star Sayani Gupta took at dig at him and urged him to speak up the “truth” instead of shutting his “ears, eyes and mouth” in connection with the plight of Dalit people in the country. She retweeted saying, “Say something. The Right thing. Gandhi also taught us to speak up for the Truth, the downtrodden, the exploited, for our Dalit brothers and sisters. Don't just shut your ears and eyes and mouths.”
Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Friday evening demanding justice for the gang-rape victim of Hathras — an incident that has shaken the conscience of the nation. For the unversed, a Dalit woman was allegedly gang-raped last month that sparked off national outrage at the gruesome crime and has led a barrage of criticism over the woman’s rushed cremation past midnight. She died in a Delhi hospital on Tuesday, a fortnight after she was gang-raped at Hathras while she was out to collect fodder with her mother. The decision to seal off the village to prevent entry of opposition leaders and the media is seen as a continuing effort to scuttle the growing public anger over the administration handling of the young woman’s death. Officials had yesterday spoken of a plan to declare the village a Covid-19 containment zone on suspicions that some policemen may have contracted the coronavirus infection.