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He's a real-life villain: BJP MP Yogi Adityanath hits back at Anupam Kher

Yogi Adityanath wasn't particularly pleased with Mr Kher's comments at The Telegraph debate.

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BJP MP Yogi Adityanath has hit back at Bollywood actor Anupam Kher for his remarks about him at the Telegraph Debate where he said that the likes of ‘Yogi and Sadhvi should be thrown out of the party for speaking nonsense. Hitting back at Anupam Kher, Yogi Adityanath called him a ‘real life villain’. He was quoted saying by a daily: "Everyone knows about the character of a villain. Kher is not only a reel life villain, but also in real life. I don't want to say anything more on his statement made in Kolkata.”

Incidentally, Sadhvi Prachi isn’t a member of the BJP and even the VHP, which she was part of, has disassociated themselves from her. 

Anupam Kher had said in the Telegraph Annual Debate: "There are some people in the party (BJP) who speak nonsense, and ill-behave, whether it is Sadhvi or Yogi...they should be put behind bars, thrown out of the party (...Hain kuch log aise party mein jo bakwas karte hain, chahe wo Sadhvi hon ya Yogi ho, unko andar kar dena chahiye aur unko nikal dena chahiye)," Kher said.

"...But, you can't play with the entire country and say that we have intolerance here (...magar aap pure desh ke saath khilwad nahin kar sakte ki hamare desh meyn intolerance hai," he said.

He was speaking at the Telegraph National Debate on intolerance. The noted actor also attacked Congress, saying people in the rival party speak "the most of awful things." "Your MP Digvijayaji had said about another MP the most awful things...Nothing can be more detestable than that. I have not brought the list of who spoke what, and I am not defending those who speak nonsense," he said.

BJP MP Yogi Adityanath and right-wing leader Sadhvi Prachi have courted controversies in the past for their inflammatory statements drawing sharp reactions from several quarters.

"This is a no debate. The rich and the famous are talking of intolerance. If you ask a man on the street, he won't talk about intolerance. All they want is food two times a day. Those with a champagne glass are only talking about it. Are you living in India or America," Kher had said. 

Speaking at ‘The Telegraph National Debate, Anupam Kher said that there was no intolerance and it was only talked about by rich people drinking champagne.  Kher said: “This is a no debate. The rich and the famous are talking of intolerance. If you ask a man on the street, they won't talk about intolerance. All they want is food two times a day. Those with a champagne in a glass are only talking about it. Are you living in India or America.”

He said the "biggest" form of intolerance in the country was during the emergency when all those people who spoke against the government were jailed. Mocking Rahul Gandhi, he said, "Congress is the most tolerant in India because they are tolerating a person whom they want to project as a prime minister of this country". He added that he would vote for Rahul if he became 1/10th of what PM Modi was.

"If you can tolerate that person then you can tolerate anything in the world. This is ridiculous. Did you hear the word intolerance before the last eight months? This has been marketed to take revenge for the defeat in the last elections," Kher said, adding, corruption is "not being talked about" in the last two years while in the last ten years, corruption was the most talked about topic."

 

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