Salman Khan, Alia Bhatt stand with NEET protesters

The scholar protest over the alleged NEET-UG paper leak, which started at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar below the banner of the Cockroach Janta Get together (CJP), has gathered main momentum over the previous seven weeks. What began within the nationwide capital has now unfold to a number of components of the nation and even abroad. Because the motion continues to develop, an rising variety of outstanding personalities, together with a number of Bollywood A-listers, have come out in help of the scholars.

Whereas veterans like Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi had been among the many first from the movie fraternity to precise solidarity with the protesters, many others have since joined the motion. Celebrities together with Anurag Kashyap, Diljit Dosanjh, Imran Khan, Sonu Sood, Vir Das, Dia Mirza, Soha Ali Khan, Aditi Rao Hydari, Rohit Saraf, Aayush Sharma, Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh, Bhumi Pednekar, Huma Qureshi, Nandita Das, Konkona Sen Sharma, Atul Kulkarni, Sonakshi Sinha, Vishal Dadlani, Pooja Bhatt, Swara Bhasker, Vijay Varma, Richa Chadha, Soni Razdan, Zeenat Aman and Rajkummar Rao have taken to social media to help the scholars and urged the federal government to provoke a dialogue with the protesters.

Though Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are but to voice their help for the scholars, actors Salman Khan and Alia Bhatt have now publicly backed the motion. Nonetheless, members of the Bachchan and Kapoor households are but to reply.

On Thursday evening, Salman shared a childhood {photograph} together with a prolonged notice on social media. “It was such a peaceable motion. I really feel so unhappy that it needed to take a violent flip. My coronary heart goes out to the scholars and their households who had been harm. Paper leak is a really critical concern and I’m glad to see that the youngsters of our nation have come collectively for a greater academic system, with the help of their dad and mom,” he wrote.

Salman additionally urged that the motion ought to stay student-led and never develop into a political concern. “This concern is between the scholars and the tutorial system. It shouldn’t be hijacked politically. The credit score ought to solely go to the scholars of our nation, and I’m certain the federal government will help them and make the tutorial system stronger.”

In the meantime, though her husband, actor Ranbir Kapoor, is but to react to the coed protest, Alia Bhatt mentioned the developments of the previous few days had damaged her coronary heart. “Behind each pupil standing their floor is a dream, a household’s hope, a journey of numerous sacrifices. They signify not simply themselves however everybody who has supported them, whereas creating a greater path for individuals who will come after them,” the ‘Alpha’ actress mentioned.

In the meantime, R Madhavan, who performed Farhan in ‘3 Idiots’, has lastly acknowledged the anger amongst college students and fogeys. His assertion got here hours after {a photograph} from outdoors the Movie and Tv Institute of India (FTII) went viral on social media. The picture confirmed a poster carrying the phrases ‘Gayab’ and ‘NEET for Sale’.

“As somebody who has at all times believed within the limitless potential of India’s youth, I share the priority and disappointment felt by so many college students and fogeys at this time,” the ‘Dhurandhar’ actor wrote.

Bollywood has typically been criticised for remaining silent on main social and political points. This time, nonetheless, the voices of help are rising louder with every passing day. Whereas A-listers comparable to Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh and Akshay Kumar are but to touch upon the difficulty, extra celebrities proceed to hitch the motion. Actors together with Imran Khan, Huma Qureshi, Saqib Saleem, Jim Sarbh, Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi have additionally been bodily current on the protest marches, lending their help to the scholars.