NEW DELHI: BJP MP Vinay Katiyar spews venom against former Miss World and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra for visiting Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh asking her to leave India if she sympathised with them.
“VIPs should not visit there (Rohingya refugee camps). This sends out a wrong message. Priyanka ji should not have gone there. How and why she did she go there? This is a matter of concern. Rohingya Muslims should not be allowed to live here and those who sympathize with them should also be not allowed to live in India,” ANI quoted the BJP MP as saying.
The 35-year-old actor, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador for Child Rights, on Monday visited the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, one of the largest refugee camps in the world and described the crisis as “horrific”.
She also shared photographs of her experience with Rohingya children, on Instagram.
Almost 700,000 refugees have fled violence in neighbouring Myanmar and arrived in Cox’s Bazar since August 2017, according to the United Nations.
Priyanka, who had met Syrian refugee children in Jordan last year, says children are at the “forefront of this humanitarian crisis, and they desperately need our help”.
“The world needs to care. We need to care. These kids are our future,” she wrote.
Priyanka also shared a video talking about how the refugees had to travel by foot to enter Bangladesh. Priyanka asked for helping these children “because right now, their future is bleak”.