‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ actor Salman Khan has landed himself in hot water, tweeting himself right into the middle of the Yakub Memon controversy. In a drunken Twitter frenzy, the Bollywood actor posted about a dozen tweets in which he said that the wrong man was being hung for the crimes of his brother.
“Get tiger, hang him. Parade him not his brother,” the actor had tweeted.
“Been wanting to tweet Tis fr 3 days n was afraid to do so but it involves a man’s n family. Don’t hang brother hang tha lomdi who ran away,” he further said.
“1 innocent man killed is killing the humanity.”
Something which was hopefully posted online in good faith and revere bombed right in the actor’s face as the public started to heavily protest against him; burning his effigy and cancelling and boycotting his movie shows. Ujjwal Nikam, the special prosecutor in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, took a strong exception to Khan’s tweets in defence of Yakub, and said the actor must withdraw them. He said, said, “Tweets made by Salman Khan are highly objectionable and were an attempt to undermine the image of the Indian Judiciary.”
What fuelled the existing fire was when the Khan, realising his faux pas, deleted his earlier tweets and posted a new one saying, ““My dad called & said I should retract my tweets as they have the potential to create misunderstanding. I hereby retract them.”
“I would like to unconditionally apologise for any misunderstanding I may have created unintentionally.”
The king of controversies has yet again done what he does best, basking in the glory of mixed reactions, unfazed by the broiling protests as the country parts into two teams, each vouching for him in their own way. Guess what he said was true. Salman Khan ‘dil mein hi aate hai, samaj mein nahi.’
