Ravi Kishan on threats for raising Bollywood drug issue in Parliament: 'Can take bullets'

Actor-politician Ravi Kishan has, on Saturday, spoken about alleged threats that he has been recieving from critics after his statements at Parliament about Bollywood's drug nexus. BJP MP has been vociferously opining about widespre use of drugs in film industry and has faced backlash from Bollywood celebrities as well. actor has allegedly been ousted by filmmakers from ir projects for his comments on film industry.

Speaking to ANI on Saturday, Gorakhpur MP said that he is unfazed by threats on his life and that he will give appropriate responses to his critics at right time. Ravi Kishan spoke about his 'cancelled' projects and revealed, " dates were finalized but suddenly I have been informed that films won't be produced. I haven't probed into exact reason for this but it is weird that I have lost two projects in a day. One was a web series and ar was a film project.".

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He asserted that he is rey to sacrifice his life for country's welfare stating that he has raised his voice for betterment of country's youth and future of film industry in India. Ravi Kishan ded that he didn't think about his own life while talking about country's future in recently concluded Monsoon Session of Parliament. Furr, he claimed that he would take 2-5 bullets for country's future, if a threatening situation should arise.

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Ravi Kishan spoke about drugs in Parliament

BJP MP from Gorakhpur Ravi Kishan raised issue of 'drug diction' in Bollywood and praised Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) which has launched a massive crackdown on a drug racket linked to film industry. 

"I want to bring an important issue to tice of all MPs. problem of drug trafficking/diction is on a rise in our country and a conspiracy is being hatched to destroy country's youth. Our neighbouring countries are contributing as smuggling of drugs from Pakistan and China is done every year via Punjab and Nepal," Ravi Kishan said.

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"Drug diction is in film industry too. Several people have been apprehended and  NCB is doing very good work. I urge central government to take strict action, apprehend culprits soon, give m befitting punishment and bring an end to conspiracy of neighbouring countries,"  BJP MP stated.

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