Ram Gopal Varma insane take on Gaza. Palestine region Gaza has been hammered left, right and centre by Israel on the pretext of punishing the Hamas terrorist organisation.
However, this is resulting in the killing of many innocent people. In the midst of all this, maverick director Ram Gopal Varma on the occasion of Diwali came up with a post on Gaza which is making all the right thinking people angry.
Ram Gopal Varma posted, “In INDIA only one day is DIWALI and in GAZA, every day is DIWALI” (sic),
Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi condemned the comment, saying, “Imagine comparing Diwali celebration to Gaza’s crimes of war. At least these social media platforms helped us identify the ‘famous’ yet the hateful amongst us. What makes a person so hateful is something I’ll never fathom or ever hope to.” (sic),
AICC Media Coordinator Harmeet Kaur K also hit out, calling the post “shocking” and accusing Varma of “celebrating our festival with genocide and killing of babies.”
Prominent journalists Sara Ather and Rana Ayyub also criticised the tweet. “People outside India cannot even begin to comprehend the absolute gutter level of politics that is mainstream in India and is very much advocated by Indian celebrities,” Ather posted.