And now coming to the often asked question - what does BJP have against SRK? Not much. He has often rubbed them the wrong way for sure in the past - Siding with Mamata Di, My Name is Khan, Intolerance comment, getting Pakistani players for his IPL team when most of the other franchises were wary of it (especially Shoaib Akhtar). And still, he is too small a fish to fry for an organisation as massive as BJP. It's not like he has any incredible goodwill left (mainly because of the shitty movies he has done and the occasional smart comments he has made) that he will be able to influence a large section of the population anymore.
I think people here are confusing BJP-against-SRK with BJP-IT-Cell-against-SRK. The second one is an unspoken truth. IT cell has time and again targeted him, very very frequently. All this fake news about him doing the non-existent Tipu movie, donating crores to Pakistan covid fund instead of to India's fight against covid, etc. keeps on cropping up from their bots because it is a planned effort to discredit the more influential anti-establishment personalities in the country today (unless they fall in line).
And yes, BJP IT cell is part of BJP. But it has become a monster of its own, almost out of control of its master. They end up trolling and pulling down their own members at times, if they put a foot out of line - for eg. Subramaniam Swamy. Some of the daily trends at times end up hurting BJP's moderate followers as well, because they have started catering to hardcore bhakts in the last 2-3 years.
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