Doubling down attack on the police crackdown inside Jamia Millia Islamia University, more voices from the Indian film industry on Tuesday backed the students against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Actors Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub, Parineeti Chopra, Sidharth Malhotra, veteran screenwriter Javed Akhtar, among others expressed solidarity with the youth over Sunday's violence inside the campus.
Thousands of students across India took to the streets demanding a probe into the use of teargas inside the Jamia library as well as police entering the campus without permission from university authorities on Sunday.
Jamia turned into a war zone on Sunday as police entered the campus and used force to quell student protests against the Act.
Ayyub, who is in the capital, expressed solidarity with Jamia and Aligarh Muslim University students and urged everyone to stand united against the contentious Act.
Targeting the administration, the "Article 15" actor said the government had nothing to show in the name of work so they are creating new villains every day.
"Today they are making villains out of Muslims. Even if you do remove them, do you think they will not make any new villains? They will keep making more villains... They have nothing to show. People are bored on Pakistan, Kashmir. They are making a fool of you for their entertainment. Don't get fooled, stand united," he said at a gathering in Press Club in New Delhi.
Ayyub, who said his father is a Muslim and his mother is a Hindu, also asked, "How can they divide us in the name of religion?"
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