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Updated June 18th, 2018 at 16:28 IST

Anushka Sharma & Virat Kohli seeking publicity by scolding littering man? "C'mon", says MoS Home Kiren Rijiju! Read here

Union MoS Kiren Rijiju has waded into the raging debate around Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma taking on a man who littered

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After Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, now, MoS Home Kiren Rijiju has also entered the swirling debate around Virat Kohli posting a video of his wife Anushka Sharma scolding a man for littering.

Taking to Twitter, Rijiju has hit back at all those people, including the man who littered and his mother, who alleged that the star couple's motive for posting such a video was 'publicity'.

Rijiju wrote:

"C'mon, Virat & Anushka need publicity!! They would rather crave for privacy!! Our conduct reflects our mentality. Civic sense is social ethics and ethical behaviour doesn't come with wealth & education. Let's keep India clean. #SwachhBharat"


Earlier, the man who got scolded admitted that he had thrown plastic out of his car but slammed Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma for the latter's angry response.

 

Then, his mother escalated matters in an unsparing response where she accused Virat and Anushka of exposing her son to hostility from lunatics and danger from fanatics:

 

@anushkasharma @virat.kohli The last thing we would want is to get publicity out of your cheap STUNT in the name of CLEANLINESS! You both posted a video for your fans n followers by VIOLATING Basic Rights to privacy &you shamed my son in the video as well in your post content you both may be who you are in your fields, with millions of followers & all the PR backing you... you may be payed for your campaigning or maybe doing it for sheer publicity As a mother,I would like to state that you have not only shamed my son @arhhansingh on social media by not blurring his face, but youve also exposed him to unwanted hostility.... and danger from fanatics for such a small thing that you claim he has done but have no proof of anyways ? I am concerned about my sons SAFTEY !!! how dare you crush somebody’s image/and morale and reputation and expose him to public hate, a boy who is on the verge of starting his ventures, ..just to prove what good citizens you both are to increase your fan following ?How dare you?? If you both really cared or bothered about cleanliness , then you would actively do something about all the garbage in your own lane.. you would make a noise and use your VOICE to urge the municipal authorities to take action atleast in the lane where you live,to start with, which you haven’t . Posting videos of fake bravado just to fool your followers. If your intention was genuine then you would pull over and politely correct the person for littering IF THEY DID in a decent and real manner... and not by displaying such a rude and arrogant attitude, and then posting it for the world to see! You have caused a lot of grief with your post & this is morally and humanitarianly very wrong. You may be #AnushkaSharma or #viraatkohli in your house or on screen & the field...but on the streets you are just a citizen trying to correct another... DO IT WITH KINDNESS ....fear karma . And just FYI , he did not react badly, not coz of who you both are.. we couldnt care less,but only because he has a decent upbringing ! Unlike people like you, who seem to think that you are the empowered ones to talk and treat people as you wish !

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Virat Kohli, who initially posted the video, has only offered one follow-up, rebuking people for making jokes and memes on the matter:

And here's the post that kicked everything off:

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had backed Anushka Sharma too, saying:


 

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Published June 18th, 2018 at 16:15 IST

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