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Filmmaker Pooja Bhatt joins Rahul Gandhi in Bharat Jodo Yatra

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On 2nd November 2022, former Bollywood actress and filmmaker Pooja Bhatt joined Rahul Gandhi in his container rally known as ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ which is at present passing by Telangana. Pooja Bhatt joined the yatra in Hyderabad as she walked alongside Rahul Gandhi for a while on Wednesday morning. Pooja is the daughter of director Mahesh Bhatt and is the primary famous Bollywood celeb to affix this Yatra.

Noted Filmmaker- Actress @PoojaB1972 joins the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

The #BharatJodoYatra resumed from Hyderabad metropolis in Telangana this morning .#ManaTelanganaManaRahul pic.twitter.com/JG5Ot4p6cj

— Telangana Congress (@INCTelangana) November 2, 2022

It, due to this fact, turns into evident to recall the connection of the Bhatt household with hate preacher Zakir Naik and terrorist David Coleman Headley. Director Mahesh Bhatt had praised Islamist hate preacher and fugitive Zakir Naik whereas his son and Pooja Bhatt’s brother Rahul Bhatt was in reference to David Coleman Headley who had carried out the recce of Mumbai for Lashkar-E-Taiba earlier than the 26/11 assaults in Mumbai.

Mahesh Bhatt praised Zakir Naik

Zakir Naik was denied entry to the UK in June 2010. Several movies of Mahesh Bhatt praising hate preacher and fugitive Zakir Naik surfaced on-line, forward of the scheduled launch of his movie ‘Sadak 2’ on July 10. In one such video, Bhatt may be seen singing praises for the novel Islamist.

Mahesh Bhatt stated, “At the onset, let me salute Dr Zakir Naik for daring to lock horns with the mighty British Empire… I salute his audacity which comes from his Imaan… If he had any grey spot in his heart, he wouldn’t have risked locking horns with these bullies… The world is becoming the most entertained and the least informed one… We, as Indians, owe it to our brother (Zakir Naik) who is national pride, (and) a prized treasure.”

He then went on a hysterical rant towards the United States, United Kingdom (UK), and different Western powers and drew irrelevant analogies with the Persian Gulf War to substantiate his declare that Naik ought to have been allowed to evangelise within the UK. “They call Dr. Naik the warmonger but history knows who is the warmonger”, the director advocated.

He added, “Are you going to believe in the opinions of those people who have the means to lie, buy wordsmiths, get newspapers, have TV networks by their side to market lies, and hang a man like Dr Naik? I will say No.” Bhatt urged the Indian authorities to intervene, rise up for Zakir Naik and plead his case.

Pooja Bhatt’s father Mahesh Bhatt needed to make a movie on Zakir Naik

Mahesh Bhatt additionally expressed his will to make a movie based mostly on Zakir Naik. He made these remarks when he was talking at an occasion organized by Peace TV. It is owned by Zakir Naik and fined £300,000 (round Rs 2.75 crore) for broadcasting hate speech. Mahesh Bhatt was invited as a visitor on Zakir Naik’s Peace TV to handle a gaggle of Muslims. On being requested whether or not he would function the hate preacher in his movies, Bhatt said, “The life of Zakir Saheb is a fascinating story in itself. It contains material for a feature film. I don’t know whether Zakir Naik will want to play the role of a hero in the movie. We can find someone to play his role, provided he gives me permission to do so. Please get the idea approved from him and then only I can make a film.”

Pooja Bhatt’s brother Rahul Bhatt was in touch with 26/11 terrorist

It could also be famous that David Coleman Headley, an accused within the Mumbai terror assault case, was reportedly a detailed affiliate of Rahul Bhatt, Mahesh Bhatt’s son. As per reviews, a day previous to the lethal Mumbai assault in 2008, Headley had warned Bhatt and requested him to not go to South Mumbai on twenty sixth November 2008, the day of the assault.

With Pooja Bhatt throwing her weight behind Rahul Gandhi in his Bharat Jodo Yatra, eyebrows are raised as her father overtly offered an mental cowl to a fugitive hate-preaching Islamist and her brother was reportedly recognized to keep in touch with a terrorist who reconnoitred Mumbai earlier than the 26/11 terror assault.