By IANS,
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday criticised the Congress for “blacklisting” Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
“Amitabh is a great actor of our country. He has enhanced India’s reputation worldwide. Just because madam (Sonia Gandhi) and ‘rajkumar’ (Rahul Gandhi) do not like him, Bachchan is being blacklisted. This is shameful for Indian democracy,” Gadkari said, referring to the Congress criticism of the actor’s presence at the opening of the Bandra-Worli sealink.
“Is this the tolerance Jawaharlal Nehru preached? Is Amitabh a Dawood Ibrahim?” Gadkari said.
Gadkari’s reacted differently when asked about the resignation of the vice chancellor of the Devi Ahilya University in Indore for inviting Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to a programme.
“These two incidents should not be compared. University is meant for education. Politicians should not be invited there.
“Yesterday, they invited Rahul. Tomorrow they will invite me and education will suffer,” he said.