There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
And that time is now - when we have to put an end to the lies of these MCA(Mumbai
cricket Association) officials and actually ask the Mumbai police to arrest
them for manhandling young boys and girls who were playing on the Wankhede
pitch after the match was over. The issue is not whether ShahRukh Khan abused
them. The issue is how they had the temerity to touch and manhandle young
children playing on the ground!
These children could have been our kids. Even assuming these
kids were out of line some sober official from Mumbai cricket association could
have gone up to ShahRukh and asked his intervention in a decent manner. A
section of the media have also completely missed the point that the real issue
here is not star brashness but whether our kids are safe and secure in
unprotected environments. We will all tune in to watch Aamir Khan talk of
protecting our kids on television but we are too quick to believe that what
Shah Rukh Khan is saying is not true and he is misusing his celebrity status. The
visuals from Wankhede show otherwise. You can clearly see ShahRukh’s daughter
Suhana and other kids looking stunned as a pack of MCA officials have descended
on ShahRukh to threaten and browbeat him, without the slightest considerations
for the young kids on the ground.
Assuming all this had happened to our kids. Would we have
stood politely in front of these officials and ask them to carry on their
perfidious behavior. I don’t know about you but I would taken them to task in
my own Punjabi way! Let us for once see the truth as it really is.
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