Salman Khan is a man without brains: Raj Thackeray

August 11, 2015 09:41

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has blasted his long-time friend, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, over his tweets, that were perceived as being in favour of Yakub Memon (some of which were withdrawn later), ahead of the execution.

"Salman is a man without brains, while his father is a respectable man. He does not read newspapers and does not know the law and thus went on tweeting in his (Yakub's) favour.

Then there are people who sent letters to the President seeking mercy for the traitor. How can anybody question a Supreme Court order?" he asked.

Days before Yakub was hanged, Salman had tweeted: "Been wanting to tweet this for 3 days and was afraid to do so but it involves a man's and his family. Don't hang brother hang the lomdi (fox) who ran away," he had posted.

He had further tweeted - "We can die for our family. Tiger, your brother will be hanged for you in some days. Say something, make a statement or address that it was you. What kind of brother are you? Where are you hiding Tiger? Sharif Saab, I would request you to let us know about Tiger, if you have any information about him."

After his tweets created a massive uproar, the actor had offered an 'unconditional' apology.

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