CAA: Payal Rohatgi terms Bollywood stars 'illiterate' for 'deliberate misinformation'

Payal Rohatgi expressed her displeasure over being arrested by Rajasthan Police for making a video on Motilal Nehru. actor fumed at Congress Youth leader Charmesh Sharma, and stated that re was ‘pressure’ because of which she was arrested. She also expressed her anger at protests from film fraternity against Citizenship Amendment Act, violence happening across  country, while lending her support to act. 

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Payal was released on bail on December 17. When asked about arrest, she said, “ people who follow law are accused of t following law, which is wrong. When Rajasthan police came to our residence, we were even ready with reply to tice we received from Mumbai. Even when y sent us ar tice in Ahmedabad, we sent m a reply through email, we have a proper trail of it. My lawyer told me to t go to Bundi, as he felt that y will put me behind bars if I go re. He said I should get bail and only n go. However, hearing was to come on Monday, but y arrested me on Sunday itself. This shows that y wanted to put me in jail, y wanted me to suffer. I don’t kw why y have done it, because I don’t have any personal enmity with police official.” 

She added, “We have an alleged audio in which two people are talking that it was t police’s fault and y had pressure from CM’s office and CM had pressure from those above m. When I heard it, I had even posted an apology on social media, because I don’t want to get into all this. My only intention was to talk to media via social media, because social media is in-thing right w. And one has control over it. I have control over it, when it is my channel and someone else is in control when it is ir channel. Despite this if I was held, it is obvious that somewhere re was pressure. I don’t kw wher content of video was right or wrong, but police conduct showed re was some kind of pressure.” 

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36 China Town actor fumed at Charmesh Sharma, who had filed complaint against her, that resulted in  FIR. Payal, however, said, “Many of Sangram ji’s (fiance Sangram Singh) friends said that Charmesh ji does fake FIRs for himself. We even told police about it, but y denied re was any FIR like that. And that he does his kidnapping for publicity.” 

On CAA 

Protests against CAA has become a controversial issue in country. Even Bollywood stars have been objecting to it on social media while some even participated in a protest. Payal reacted, “B-Town celebs are quite illiterate. If I made a video on Motilal Nehru and it was misinforming, it was on someone who is t alive today. History can misguide us because we were t present in history. celebrities from film industry who have taken to streets against CAA are deliberately spreading misinformation. Because y are doing so eir without understanding it or even after understanding it. y are intentionally spreading this to create riots. CAA is t anti-India or anti-Muslim, it is giving shelter to displaced mirities of two-nation ory that was created by Congress.” She also stated that Modi government had only simplified provisions of Nehru-Liaquat pact of 1950. “How can se people who are against Modi, be against CAA. CAA doesn’t even touch citizenship of Indian Muslims,” she added. 

actor also said, “When y don’t kw anything about CAA, why are y showing interest in NRC. At least understand CAA first, y have held boards against CAA. Farhan Akhtar, who is such a good artist and I think he is a good human being also, when he was asked what were points of bill he didn’t agree with, he did t have an answer. So all se people who take to streets, only because y are told to do so, and create riots, what do I say about m?” 

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On protests taking a violent turn in country, she said, “If protests were peaceful, n why did we see burning buses and stone-pelting. How did peaceful become violent? If you see follow Gandhiji’s values, n how did you take up weapons? Students should look like students right? Some from m are from a particular community. It’s t ir fault eir. Indian Muslims are being instigated. This is being done by people like Shabana Azmi and Arundhati Roy, who are extremely intellectual and educated, who don’t have information about CAA and at same time, when Nehru ji was behind  original bill, n why are y making m take to streets and resort to violence?” 

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