Amid PM Modi press row, Gul Panag criticises Dhruv Rathee: ‘Joke on foreign soil doesn’t feel right’

Key points

• Actor Gul Panag has fiercely criticised YouTuber Dhruv Rathee for a social media post denouncing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Reacting to Rathee’s post, which stated that “Modi deserved to be humiliated everywhere he goes,” the actress asserted that the freedom not to like a political party or Prime Minister is a democratic right, but “reducing the office of India’s Prime Minister to a joke on foreign soil doesn’t feel like the right thing or dissent to me.” "Modi deserves to be humiliated everywhere he goes.
• He has not given a single press conference in 12 years since he became the Prime Minister.
• He fails to fulfill the basic transparency and accountability requirements of being a leader.
• I would like to encourage foreign journalists from other European countries to ask him questions wherever they see him, just like @HelleLyngSvends did.