Actor Atul Kulkarni has announced that he will observe a day long fast at his home on Thursday to support education reformer and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk in his hunger strike to protest against exam paper leaks.
Wangchuk has been on an indefinite hunger strike after joining the Cockroach Janata Party’s (CJP) protest demanding education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination.
The “Rang De Basanti” star shared a video on social media on Wednesday evening to extend his support to Wangchuk.
“I will go on a hunger strike on June 16. There are two reasons for this — I want to connect with the pain that Sonam Wangchuk ji and his companions are going through and an appeal to our government to express their sensitivity. Sonam ji and his companions believe that there are some serious and painful reasons and for that they have certain demands. It is clear that our government believes that those demands are not justified,” Kulkarni said on Instagram. (PTI)
