Victor Banerjee Slams Sidhu, Shatrughan Sinha Defends Sidhu

Congress politician  Navjot Singh Sidhu seems to be losing  friends faster than making them.

 The  latest celebrity to  join the Siddhu ‘banned’ wagon is Bangla cinema’s legendary  actor Victor  Banerjee  who  has  not taken kindly to Sidhu’s  pacifist attitude to terrorism exported from Pakistan.

  Says Victor, “Sidhu, whom I privately politely tolerated as a farcical joker with Bollywood aspirations upto now, is a disgrace to the great Sikh people who have, for centuries, sacrificed thousands of lives for Hindustan, for India.”

 Victor reiterates that it  is  the armed forces and  not politicians whom we need to respect. “Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces’ integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.”

The actor who has  played  the lead in David Lean’s A Passage To India and Satyajit Ray’s Ghaire Bhaire  rues the decline in  the credibility level in  politics.  “My opinion of our Parliamentarians is shared by all of us who are victims of governors who have ruled  over us selfishly.Democracy in a socialist country is freedom in chains.”

However BJP parliamentarian and  actor Shatrughan Sinha defends  Siddhu.  “He should exercise  more restraint in his  public statements.But to say that there is  no need to go to war  with Pakistan  is  not  wrong .We are going through an inflammatory  phase  in our  nation’s politics where  you have to shout  for war against  Pakistan or you’re branded  a traitor with pro-Pakistani link. I think we should give  peace a chance.”