Don’t care about those criticising my Padma awards: Kher

Twitteratti found a tweet by Kher in 2010 where he had slammed the Padma awards, claiming they lacked credibility.

“I pity those who think that I am being rewarded by the BJP… I am being criticised because losers have this kind of attitude, winners don’t have this kind of attitude,” he said in an interview to CNN-IBN.

When asked to respond to an open letter by Salman Nizami, a Congress leader from J&K, Kher shot back, “Who is he? People are criticising me to get attention which they did not have earlier.”

The actor said Ghulam Nabi Azad, who had tweeted a link to Nizami’s letter, was a friend.

“Ghulam Nabi Azad is a very dear friend. I am surprised. He criticised me just to please the Congress High Command,” he said.

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