West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here on Thursday that actor Aamir Khan is within his democratic rights to make any comments and no one has the right to ask him to leave the country.
“Aamir has made a wrong statement or is correct (that is not the issue). He is within his right to make the statement. His wife has said something and he has spoken about it. Now he is being asked to leave the country as if the country is theirs, the country is for all. None has a right to say that you leave the country, you go to Pakistan,” Ms. Banerjee said.
Addressing a gathering organised by prominent minority leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury at Shahid Minar grounds in the city the Chief Minister said that at atmosphere is being created where people are not allowed to freely voice their opinion.
Ms. Banerjee also referred to the recent controversy over actor Shahrukh Khan's comments and said that there are many who are threatened.
“Even a person like Mithun Chakraborty, an MP of my party cannot speak to me over telephone in fear,” she said.
The Chief Minister alleged that the NDA government is using the CBI against those raising the voice against it.
