Welcome to Banistan: After Sonam Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha slams meat ban, gets mercilessly trolled

Trolls target Sonakishi Sinha after she asks if India is a free country

Staff correspondent, September 9, 2015, Newscrunch

Bollywood continued its campaign in support of Indians' right to eat what they wanted, with actress Sonakshi Sinha tweeting on Tuesday, protesting the ban against meat during the Jain festival Paryushan.

Without  naming meat ban, Sonakshi Sinha slammed the general tendency of the government to press the ban button frequently. The Maharashtra government had controversially banned beef in the state sometime ago.

"Welcome to BAN-istan... I meant india.. Stupid auto correct," her tweet read.

She also sent a follow-up tweet saying ignorance and negligence should be banned instead. Indians were worrying about meat when Assam was reeling under floods, she commented on the misplaced priorities of the country.

As to be expected, Sonakshi Sinha's  tweets red-flagged the trolls who descended upon her foul mouthed and swearing.

They were upset that she had dared to call India Bani-stan. They took it as an attack on their idea of India and also as a personal criticism of Prime Minister Modi and responded in full force.

They called Sonakshi Sinha fat, befitting daughter of Shatrughan Sinha, who is equally outspoken in BJP. They commented on her her movies, acting skills, raked up her old tweets and tore into them as well.

Older Bollywood actors try to avoid controversies by playing it safe. In a recent interview with Arnab Goswami Amitabh Bachchan claimed he did not even know that beef had been banned in Maharashtra.

But the new generation of Bollywood speaks its mind without bothering about the trolls. Before Sonakshi Sinha,  Sonam Kapoor had also come out strongly against ban on meat.

Twitter trolls Sonakshi Sinha after she protests meat ban