Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urged everyone to boycott Bengali actors who have also worked in Bangladesh for maintaining silence during the attack on minorities in Bangladesh.
Talking to the Free Press Journal, BJP Rajya Sabha MP and spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya said that Bengali actors like Prasenjit Chattopadhyay, Rituparna Sengupta and director Gautam Ghose should be boycotted for keeping silent on the Bangladesh crisis.
“Not just their films, but they should also be socially boycotted for not speaking about the crisis that the minorities are facing in Bangladesh. They have done several films in collaboration with Bangladesh artists. Now they are maintaining silence,” said Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya also mentioned that a Bangladeshi actor who also works in Bengali movies of West Bengal Jaya Ahson is safely shooting in India.
“Jaya Ahsan should also speak on the crises. But even she is silent. But I can understand that if she speaks once she goes back to her own country, she might face problems,” further mentioned the BJP Rajya Sabha MP.
However, the actors refused to comment when contacted.
Notably, apart from vandalising and ransacking Hindu temples and atrocities and violences on Hindus, several houses of Christian community were allegedly set ablaze at Bandarban, as reported the Bangladesh newspaper Daily Star on Christmas eve by the alleged fundamentalists.
