After Anupam Kher’s tweet on group within fraternity “campaigning for opposition”, here’s what Swara Bhaskar and Soni Razdan had to say

Ahe of first phase of polling of Lok Sabha Elections 2019, Actor Anupam Kher on Saturday took to Twitter and me an observation about how people within Bollywood fraternity were 'campaigning for opposition'. By Sunday, actor’s tweet stirred up a storm of reactions from within film fraternity. 

Kher tweeted: "So some people from my fraternity have issued a letter for public to vote out present constitutionally elected government in coming elections. In or words y are officially campaigning for opposition parties. Good!! At least re are no pretensions here. Great. 🙏"

Kher attached a GIF that featured him and a slogan 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'.

Reacting to tweet on Sunday morning, Alia Bhatt's mor and actress Soni Razdan replied to Kher’s post saying: "Anupam if you can align yourself to present Govt why would you think ors doing same is any different ? Just curious"

Anupam clarified his stance and said: "Dearest Soni! It was an observation. Not a complaint.:)"

Soni Razdan in a polite way ended Twitter conversation by saying 'Acha Ji'.

Here's interaction between two -

'Veere Di Wedding' actress Swara Bhasker too left a comment on Kher’s tweet and said: "Yes, it’s called democracy sir :) :) :) ❣❣❣Bharat Mata ki Jai! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳"

Replying to Bhasker, Kher tweeted: “Agreed!!! As long as it is not confused with #Intolerance when ors use it. Jai Ho and Jai Hind.😍🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳" 

Anupam Kher's tweet comes after news on Thursday broke that 616 atre personalities, including Naseeruddin Shah, have signed a letter urgent electorate to "vote BJP and its allies" out of power. appeal claimed that idea of India and its constitution were under threat. letter was issued on 'Artist Unite India website' in 12 different languages namely: English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Kanna, Assamese, Telugu, Punjabi, Konkani and Urdu. 

appeal, along with names of signatories, stated that said upcoming Lok Sabha elections are "most critical in history" of country.

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Among those who signed letter were Naseeruddin Shah, Shanta Gokhale, Mahesh Elkunchwar, Mahesh Dattani, Arundhati Nag, Kirti Jain, Abhishek Majumdar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Lillete Dubey, Mita Vashisth, M K Raina, Makarand Deshpande and Anurag Kashyap.

appeal by atre personalities hasn’t been lone attempt by artistic and creative fraternity to urge electorate to vote BJP out of power. 

Last week, over 200 writers led by likes of Arundhati Roy and Romila Thapar wrote an appeal to Indians to vote in favour of “diverse and equal India”  and vote out politics of hate. 

On 28th of March,  a group of over 100 filmmakers led by likes of Anand Patwardhan issued a joint statement appealing to electorate to not vote for BJP in 2019 General Elections.

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