A private complaint has been registered against National award-winning actor Prakash Raj over his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The court is scheduled to hear the complaint on October 7.
The actor, a close friend of the Lankesh family, said the prime minister and others were acting as if nothing had happened despite having social media followers celebrating the killing on social media. Raj commented this after the silence over the death of his journalist friend Gauri Lankesh.
Prakash Raj said that Who killed my dear friend Gauri is not as important to me today as who has been celebrating her death. There may not be proof as to who killed Gauri but we can see who is celebrating it and from this we can form an idea of who could have killed her.
He also said that the underlying cruelty in all of this is apparent to many people. Many of those celebrating Gauri’s death are persons followed by the Prime Minister on social media. The PM has been absolutely silent about these people.
Soon after his speech, reports emerged that Raj wants to give back
his national award in protest against the killing of veteran journalist
Gauri Lankesh.The actor clarified it by saying that
Well I can just laugh at the crawling on the newschannel that Prakash
Raj has decided to give back his national awards. I am not such a fool
to give back my national awards. It has been given to me for my body of
work, which I am very proud of.
