Shiv Sena offers Rs100,000 for slapping Aamir Khan

ISLAMABAD: A leader of the Shiv Sena’s Indian Punjab unit Rajeev Tandon has offered Rs100,000 to anyone who slaps Bollywood actor Aamir Khan for his comment on growing intolerance in the country.
“Any person who slaps Aamir Khan will be awarded Rs1,00 000 by the Shiv Sena. This is important because no one living in our country should dare to say anything against India,” the Times of India quoted Rajeev Tandon as saying on Thursday.
The announcement by Tandon came as Shiv Sena workers earlier protested near a five star hotel in Ludhiana where Aamir Khan and his crew had been staying during the shooting of a movie. The protesters burnt Khan’s posters and disrupted traffic outside the hotel.
On Monday Aamir Khan had said during a television programme that a sense of insecurity and fear was gripping India and revealed that his wife had even questioned whether the couple should leave the country. His remarks sparked a storm of criticism including from the ruling Hindu nationalist party BJP.
“As an individual as a citizen certainly I have also been alarmed I can’t deny it by a number of incidents,” he said at an awards ceremony in New Delhi.
The 50 year old actor was the latest in a series of high profile figures from the art world to raise concerns about religious and cultural intolerance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was elected last year.
Fellow Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan referred recently to extreme intolerance in India after the lynching of a Muslim man in October over rumours he had eaten beef.