SRK row: Youth Congress protests against BJP in Kolkata

The Youth Congress workers staged a protest here on Thursday over growing intolerance in the nation and against the recent remarks by BJP leaders on actor Shah Rukh Khan.

The agitators carried posters and placards with messages such as "Intolerance is in BJP's DNA" and "No one can question SRK's patriotism". They also carried a collage of SRK's photographs and raised slogans against the BJP leaders.

The protestors also burnt the effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Ever since Congress left the government, the incidents of intolerance have been growing. People eat different kinds of meat, the choice should be left them. The BJP is spreading intolerance and our protest is against that," said one of the protestors.

Earlier on Tuesday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi led a march of her party leaders to the Rashtrapati Bhawan from the Parliament House to register their protest over rising intolerance and communal incidents.

BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya had on Tuesday attacked the actor over his "extreme intolerance" comment, saying his 'soul' is in Pakistan though he lives in India and also painted him as an 'anti-nationalist'.

The BJP leader later retracted his tweets on the Bollywood superstar, saying he was 'misconstrued by some.

The Bollywood actor had joined the debate swirling around 'intolerance' on his 50th birthday, when he told a leading news channel that there was 'nothing worse than religious intolerance and that it would take India to the Dark Ages'.