Mumbai: One of the talented actors the film industry will miss forever is Sushant Singh Rajput. The actor died by suicide in Mumbai in June 2020. The Kai Po Che star’s death was probed by various agencies and most of his fans blamed a few prominent celebrities for his demise.
Sushant Singh Rajput is again making headlines as a paparazzo shared the throwback photo on Instagram leaving fans of the late star mindblown. Netizens called Hrithik’s stuntman a ‘replica of SSR (Sushant Singh Rajput)’.
In the old photograph shared on Instagram, Hrithik Roshan is seen posing with a stuntman named Mansoor Ali Khan on the set of his film Vikram Vedha. Fans commented that Mansoor Khan is looking like the carbon copy of SSR. Fans recalled Sushant Singh Rajput and his acting skills. Some wrote the name of the actor’s best roles while others recalled his best dialogues. A few wrote that ‘SSR is back’.
Reacting to the picture, one of the users wrote, ”2 sec ke liye mujhe yeh SSR lagi , ” another user commented, ” OHhhh myyy god… he resembles SSR .”
‘The fact that he looks like SSR, also his name is mansoor (Sushant’s character’s name from Kedarnath)!, ” a third user commented.
SSR’s last film Dil Bechara was released posthumously on Hotstar.
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar being greeted by Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav after taking oath, at Raj Bhavan in Patna, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (PTI Photo)
Patna: All doesn’t seem well between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav, following JD-U President Lalan Singh’s statement that there is no decision on the leader for 2025, as an incident during the Kisan Samagam held in Bapu Sabhagar here on Tuesday indicated.
The programme was scheduled to start at 11 a.m. and Nitish Kumar reached at the right time and sat on the chair reserved for him. There were other ministers and officials present there but the chair for the Deputy CM next to him was empty.
As per the protocol, Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav has to come well before the Chief Minister but here in Kisan Samagam, Nitish Kumar came at the right time but Tejashwi Yadav did not. Nitish Kumar, from time to time, was soon looking at the entrance to see if Tejashwi Yadav was coming. He once also lost his cool and slammed a farmer who was delivering his suggestion from the dais and using English words.
Tejashwi Yadav finally arrived at the venue at 1 p.m. and sat at the chair reserved for him.
Sources claim Tejashwi Yadav deliberately came late to give a message to Nitish Kumar after the statement of Lalan Singh.
Lalan Singh on Monday claimed that Nitish Kumar will be the Chief Minister till 2025 and the CM face of Mahagathbandhan for 2025 Assembly election has not been decided yet. Following the statement of Lalan Singh, JD-U national General Secretary K.C. Tyagi went a step ahead, telling media persons in Delhi that Nitish Kumar will not only lead Bihar in 2025 but also in 2030 as well.
Lalan Singh’s statement came soon after Upendra Kushwaha resigned from the primary membership of the JD-U, to express his opposition to Nitish Kumar’s announcement that he would hand over his political legacy to Tejashwi Yadav. Nitish Kumar had also announced several times that Tejashwi Yadav will be the CM face of Mahagathbandhan in 2025.
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Telangana may be in a sticky wicket over suspended Goshamahal MLA T Raja Singh’s fate in the coming days. While his supporters and a section of leaders from the BJP want his suspension to be lifted, the state leadership however cannot do much as Singh isn’t alone in his transgression of passing derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad.
According to BJP leaders from Telangana, Raja Singh will have to wait till the BJP’s central leadership takes a call with regard to his suspension. The Goshamahal MLA was suspended last year in August after he passed derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad in response to the state government allowing comic Munawar Faruqui hold a show in Hyderabad.
Raja Singh was soon arrested by the Hyderabad police under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act, and is currently out on bail he received from the Telangana high court. However, he has a gag order placed on him, as the court placed certain conditions for his release, including not passing inflammatory comments in public (and also from holding public meetings in general).
Section among BJP wants him reinstated
However, Raja Singh may have landed himself in bigger soup than he would have thought of. Before Singh, now suspended party spokesperson Nupur Sharma also passed similar comments on TV, which led to the BJP-run central leadership facing international condemnation from Muslim majority nations, especially from the middle-east. It led to an international backlash, after which the party promptly suspended Sharma.
Similarly, Raja Singh was also immediately suspended after he passed such comments. “Definitely there are demands to reinstate him, but there are other persons also who are suspended from other states. He is our party MLA and we will try to get him out of the issue,” said a senior BJP from Hyderabad.
After being released from jail, Raja Singh has continued to do what he wants. In spite of the gag order from the Telangana High Court, he BJP MLA seems to be subverting his restrictions by passing communal and inflammatory remarks from outside the state. A case has already been registered against him in recent times for violating the court orders (with the Mangalhat police station).
Raja Singh undeterred by gag order
He was served another notice by the Mangalhat police in Hyderabad on January 29 for a hate speech he gave at a public meeting in Mumbai. In response to the notice, Raja Singh denied making any provocative speeches and asked the Hyderabad police which issued him a show cause notice to drop the same. “I reasonably believe, it is an act of political vendetta and your esteemed machinery is put into action under force,” he stated.
When asked if the BJP here will try and restrain him until his issue is sorted out, the part leader said that won’t be possible. “He is a second time MLA so we cannot tell him anything,” he added. It is to be seen whether Raja Singh is able to get out of the gag order, given that elections are approaching in Telangana. The state goes to polls later this year in about six months time.
In the 2018 Telangana state elections, Raja Singh was the only BJP leader who managed to win. He retained the Goshamahal seat. The ruling TRS, which has now changed its name to Bharata Rashtra Samithi (BRS), had won the election with a big margin. It secured 88 Assembly seats out of 119, while the opposition Congress (which had an alliance with the TDP and other parties), won 19 seats, and the Telugu Desam party won 2. The AIMIM retained all of its seven seats in Hyderabad.
Prophet row
The suspended BJP MLA was detained under the Preventive Detention (PD) Act by the Hyderabad police last year. After spending nearly three months in the Central Prison, Cherlapally, he was released after the High Court quashed his detention orders.
Cops take hold of a man protesting against BJP MLA Raja Singh last year. (Image: Siasat)
Cases were registered against Raja Singh for passing derogatory statements against Prophet Muhammad that brought the city to the verge of a communal riot last year. Raja Singh released a video with his objectionable remarks after the state government allowed comedian Munawar Faruqui, who had performed a comedy set about Hindu gods earlier, to hold a show in the city.
The BJP MLA’s video led to several protests for over two days, after which the Hyderabad police put him in prison. Senior police officials said that they are keeping tabs on him after his release as well.
Jammu: Former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday categorically rejected party veteran Digvijaya Singh’s remark on the 2019 surgical strikes.
While addressing a press conference here, the Gandhi scion — spearheading the Bharat Jodo yatra — said that the party completely trusts the Army and there is no need of any proof on it.
“Do not agree with Digvijaya Singh’s statement, we have full trust in our Army if it does something there is no need to give proof. I personally disagree with him and this is also official position of the party”, he said.
Congress, on Monday, had distanced itself from Singh’s comments on Pulwama, including on the surgical strikes, terming his statement “personal”.
“The views expressed by senior leader Digvijaya Singh are his own and do not reflect the position of Congress. Surgical strikes were carried out before 2014 by UPA government. Congress has supported & will continue to support all military actions that are in the national interest,” Congres General Secretary, in charge of communication, Jairam Ramesh said.
Digvijaya Singh, during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, targeted the Union government, alleging that it gave no proof of surgical strikes though it claimed to have killed many terrorists.
