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The sketch, titled ‘Naya Bharat’ was uploaded on YouTube on Sunday sparking outrage and protests by workers of the Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena.
The employees vandalised the venue the place the present happened and lodged an FIR in opposition to the comic, Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Aaditya Thackeray and Sanjay Raut and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
Nonetheless, this isn’t the primary time when the comic has courted controversy.
Arnab Goswami Episode
In 2020, Kamra had shared a video of him heckling journalist Arnab Goswami on an Indigo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow. In a two-minute video uploaded by him on his Twitter account, Kamra was heard asking the scribe: “Right here, I’m asking coward Arnab about his journalism and he’s doing precisely what I anticipated him to do.”
Goswami, nevertheless, saved quiet throughout the complete episode.
After the video went viral, an investigation was launched into the incident following which IndiGo imposed a six-month ban on Kamra, terming his act a Degree 1 offence. Later, the ban was diminished to 3 months.
Different airways together with Air India, SpiceJet, and GoAir additionally took related motion barring him from travelling on their flights.
Spat With Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal
Kamra just lately criticised Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on social media saying the corporate has failed to deal with growing buyer grievances and unresolved refund points, amongst different points.
The 2 concerned in a heated change earlier as properly after Kamra commentary a couple of buildup of Ola Electrical scooters outdoors what appeared to be an Ola retailer. Responding to Kamra, Aggarwal mentioned, “If you happen to’re so involved, why do not you assist? If not, shut up and allow us to repair actual buyer points.”
Jokes On Salman Khan
Earlier this month, the comic sparked a row as he joked about Bollywood actor Salman Khan throughout certainly one of his stand-up reveals. Kamra joked about Khan’s involvement in two main authorized instances, the 1998 blackbuck poaching case and the 2002 hit-and-run case.
Amid stories that Salman Khan was planning to file a defamation case in opposition to Kamra, the comic mentioned he wouldn’t apologise for his jokes.
Objectionable Comment For CJI
In 2020, Kamra landed in one other controversy after he mocked the then Chief Justice of India, Sharad Arvind Bobde on social media. Sharing a photograph on X, Kamra mentioned, “Certainly one of these fingers is for CJI Bobde…okay let me not confuse you it’s the center one,” together with an image of two figures. The publish got here after Arnab Goswami was granted interim bail in a 2018 abetment to suicide case.
Lawyer Basic KK Venugopal filed contempt proceedings in opposition to Kamra for obscene and derogatory feedback in opposition to the CJI.
Remark On Supreme Court docket
A plea was filed in opposition to Kamra in Could 2020 for his comment that the Supreme Court docket was a ‘Brahmin-Baniya’ affair in his present ‘Be Like’. The petition was filed as an intervention utility in an already pending contempt of courtroom in opposition to him.
Kid’s ‘Morphed’ Video’
The comic landed in soup once more after he shared an edited video of a seven-year-old boy singing for Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout his go to to Germany. Within the video, the boy sang ‘Hey Janmabhoomi Bharat’, which was changed with the 2010 film Peepli Dwell’s well-known quantity ‘Mehengayi daayan khaaye jaat hai’.
The daddy’s boy lashed out at Kamra and requested him to maintain his youngster away from his “filthy politics”. He later deleted the video.
