In a viral video on social media, Raftaar can be seen strongly criticising the citizenship law in a fiery speech as the crowd goes bonkers for him.
Beginning his rant, Raftaar said that his career could fall apart in the future over this, but he has earned enough to not be bothered about it.
Addressing his huge audience, Raftaar introduced his friend named Arshad to the crowd and said, ”he takes care of me to the extent that nobody can even push me. If anyone asks him to leave this country, I am ready to take a bullet for it”.
“Whether they are Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, or Muslims, they are all our brothers. I will not let anyone be taken out of the country...” said the singer as the crowd cheered and roared for him.
Raftaar has joined the league of Bollywood celebrities like Priyanka Chopra, Farhan Akhtar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anurag Kashyap, Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal, Shabana Azmi, Kabir Khan, Swara Bhasker, Sushant Singh, and Siddharth, to vehemently oppose the law.
The amended law seeks to grant citizenship to illegal immigrants from six religious minorities – Hindus, Parsis, Jains, Christians, Buddhists, and Sikhs, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan if they arrived in India prior to 2015. It, however, doesn't extend the same treatment to Muslims. Protesters view the legislation as discriminatory towards Muslims - something which Prime Minister Modi has strongly rejected.