Vishal Dadlani, Parvathy criticise Sonam Wangchuk’s hospital shift

Singer Vishal Dadlani and actor Parvathy Thiruvothu criticised the manner in which educationist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to hospital, while actor Hrithik Roshan joined several film personalities in expressing support for the activist and protesting students.

New Delhi: Singer Vishal Dadlani and actor Parvathy Thiruvothu have expressed their disappointment over the way educationist Sonam Wangchuk was shifted to a hospital from the protest site where he has been on an indefinite hunger strike.

Wangchuk was taken from the Jantar Mantar protest site to Safdarjung Hospital in the early hours of Saturday. The activist has been on a hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar after joining the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) protest demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination.

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Dadlani shared a video on his Instagram handle on Saturday and said he was speechless. “Have you ever seen such a thing? Sonam ji was forcibly taken away. These people are ruining this country, this is… It breaks my heart,” he is heard saying in the video.

“People of my country, when will you wake up? If you don’t wake up now, then when will you? I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what to think. I just wish I was there to help him somehow. I am overwhelmed with anger right now,” he added.

Thiruvothu called the act an “abduction of our rights”.

“Abduction of our voices. When the protectors become the abusers, we better remind them that we will never let OUR India be run by crooks and liars. Solidarity and support to the brave citizens at Jantar Mantar and across the country,” she wrote in an Instagram post.

Actor Hrithik Roshan is the latest from the film industry, after Zeenat Aman, Anurag Kashyap, Soni Razdan, Sonakshi Sinha and Abhay Deol, to extend support to Wangchuk and the protesting students.

In a post on Instagram, Roshan said he agrees with Wangchuk’s concern for the students.

Roshan shared a video of Wangchuk on his Instagram Story on Friday. It featured the activist speaking about students and how 20 of them lost their lives after the papers were leaked.

The actor, who essayed the role of mathematician and educator Anand Kumar in the 2019 film “Super 30”, said he agrees with Wangchuk.

“This sounds true. I learnt about the trauma students go through when I played a teacher in one of my movies,” the actor wrote.