Jaya Bachchan , actress and the member of Parliament representing the Samajwadi Party moved suspension notice in the Rajya Sabha to discuss the possibility of a conspiracy to defame the film industry. This comes a day after BJP MP Ravi Kishan raised concerns over drug addiction and linked it to the film industry.
The whole matter is leading from the fact that while several incidents of behaviour, and the way the film industry conducts itself including the big suicide case of Sushant Singh Rajput.
Jaya Bachchan Conspiracy to defame the film industry – This remarks comes from her in Rajya Sabha Today
Jaya also hit out at actor-politician Ravi Kishan who said in parliament yesterday that drug addiction is in the film industry too, saying that the industry is being “flogged by social media and the government’s non-support”.
“Just because of a few people, you cannot tarnish the whole industry… I was really embarrassed and ashamed that yesterday one our members in the Lok Sabha, who is from the industry, spoke against the film industry. Jis thaali me khaate hain usi me chched karte hain,” Ms Bachchan said in the Rajya Sabha today, referring to the BJP MP’s statement in Lok Sabha. Her remark in Hindi, draws from the idiom, “Bite the hand that feeds you”.
Ravi Kishan, a popular actor of Bhojpuri and Hindi films, and a BJP MP from Uttar Pradesh, raised in parliament the drugs-related allegations that have emerged against the film industry in the Sushant Singh Rajput investigations. He alleged a “conspiracy” by Pakistan and China to destroy the country’s younger citizens.
Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and the subsequent drugs-related investigation in the case, questions have been raised about certain alleged activities in the film industry. “People in the entertainment industry are being flogged by social media.
People who made their names in the industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the government tells such people not to use this kind of language,” Jaya said on Tuesday, according to ANI. Previously, actor Kangana Ranaut had called the film industry a ‘gutter’ and alleged that 99% of the people who work in it have been exposed to drugs.