Aamir's statement bereft of facts: BJP

Condemning Bollywood actor Aamir Khan's statement on rising intolerance and insecurity in the nation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday termed his statement as incorrect, improper and bereft of facts.

"Statement made either is incorrect or improper because it is bereft of facts. The facts are completely contrary ," BJP spokesperson and MP Meenakshi Lekhi told ANI here.

"I am not sure of the husband wife discussion going on in the television. The fact he has not left, he did not think that his wife's statement was appropriate," she added.

BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath also condemned Aamir Khan's statement, telling the actor to leave the country if he wants to.

"If he wants to leave then who is stopping them. Atleast, in this way the population of the country will be reduced," Adityanath told the media here.

BJP reacted a day after Bollywood actor Aamir Khan expressed "alarm" and despondency over the rise in such cases "in the last six to eight months" and said that his wife Kiran Rao even suggested that they should probably leave the country.

Aamir, who was speaking at the eighth edition of the Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism awards yesterday, said that a sense a sense of "insecurity" and "fear" had seeped deep within society.