Anupam Kher at March For India: Nobody has right to call India intolerant, let’s tell the world today that India is tolerant

"We have our issues but we live in a Great country."

Published: November 7, 2015, 11:42 AM IST

With the increasing incidents of intolerance in our country, many famous personalities have expressed their dissent. Recently actor Anupam Kher was amongst one of them who is about to lead a march today to the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi for the same. The actor will be leading a counter tolerance march today along with few other personalities including  Madhur Bhandarkar, Ronu Majumdar, Chandraprakash Diwedi, Priyadarshan.

The initiation by the actor started today at the National Museum, Janpath today at 10.00 am IST. The actor has come up with the idea of this march to share his piece of mind that nobody has a right to tag our country as an intolerant country. He has also started the hastag #IndiaIsIntolerant as part of the counter tolerance march.

The actor has been actively debating about the issues regarding the current state, and how the intolerance  is being used as a spiteful medium to throw dirt over the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government. (ALSO READ: Anupam Kher slams Arundhati Roy ahead of his ‘March for India’; Calls her ‘anti-India’)

Anupam Kher said, “Patriotism gives us a feeling of self worth.We have our issues but we live in a Great country. Every country goes through problems but nobody has the right to call our country intolerant. India is our journey & our destination. Let’s tell the world today that India is tolerant.” Earlier he also said that the Award Wapsi Gang were not insulting the government, but the jury, the chairman of the jury and the audience who have watched the films of the artist.

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