Goa BJP’s medical cell convenor, Shekhar Salkar, on Wednesday prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to strip Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan off their Padma awards for featuring in surrogate announcements promoting tobacco products.
“I’ve no words to condemn the way Akshay Kumar has joined the gang of Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgan to promote cancer through a surrogate advt of tobacco product. Ironically, all these people are Padma award winners,”Salkar Tweeted.
“While@PMOIndia is working overtime to make India healthy through Fit India movement, the entire charge is lowered by these so- called influencers with their surrogate advt enmeshing the youngish generation into tobacco consumption. Do these actors really earn Padmashri,” asked Salkar, who’s also an office- deliverer of the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication.
“People have put their faith in these disgraced, dishononurable actors who have vended their soul and ethics to make plutocrat at the cost of minds of innocent youth who emulate them and get negatively told and initiated to tobacco consumption,”he added.
Bachchan is the philanthropist of the Padma Vibhushan award, while Khan, Devgn and Akshay Kumar have been awarded the Padmashri award, the country’s fourth loftiest mercenary honour.
