In November last year, Aamir Khan during an awards ceremony, voiced what he felt about the recent goings on in the country. He had said, "There is a sense of fear more than there was earlier. I do feel there is a sense of insecurity. When I sit at home and talk to (wife) Kiran. Kiran and I have lived all our lives in India. For the first time, she said, should we move out of India? That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make to me. She fears for her child." That quote has taken away a lot of things from the actor and continues to haunt him. Only yesterday, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said, without taking names, that an actor and a trading company were taught a lesson for speaking against the country.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar took a jibe at Aamir Khan as he raked up his remark about leaving the country and described it as "arrogant". "One actor had said that his wife wants to live out of India. It was an arrogant statement. If I am poor and my house is small, I will still love my house and always dream to make a bungalow out of it," he said, without naming Khan.
Parrikar was speaking here after releasing the Marathi version journalist-author Nitin Gokhale's book on Siachen. According to Parrikar, when the actor made the statement last year, many people had protested against his remark and even uninstalled the mobile application of an online shopping site he was associated with, while the firm had also pulled out the advertisement featuring him.
In an oblique reference to the alleged anti-national sloganeering at JNU earlier this year, Parrikar said those who speak against the nation need to be taught a lesson by people of this country.
"How come people get guts or courage to speak against the country?
"Such people who speak against the country need to be taught a lesson by the people of this country," he added.
