MUMBAI :
After facing criticism from Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, Bollywood actor Sonu Sood met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree last night, sources said on Monday.
The latter lauded actor Sonu Sood’s initiative to arrange buses for stranded migrant workers.
The actor, after meeting the Maharashtra Chief Minister, said, “We have to support all the people who are suffering and need us. I will continue until the last migrant has reached his home. Every party from Kashmir to Kanyakumari has supported and I want to thank everyone for that.”
The meeting came on a day the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena launched a scathing attack on Sonu saying he was “enacting a political script written by BJP”.
Writing in the party’s mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Sanjay Raut referred to the Punjab-born actor as a Mahatma, who, he wrote, had appeared out of nowhere during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.
Notably, the Mahatma jibe was with reference to the actor’s recent meet with Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, during which the Governor had called him Mahatma Sood, praising him for his work.
Raut further alleged that Sood was only ‘pretending’ to send migrants home, remarking that he could anything for money as he’s an actor, adding that ‘acting is his profession.
