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The 43-second clip was taken from an event organized by a media house in 2012 and a Twitter user shared the clip. Nine years later, netizens were not enough with Hooda's act to be classified as racist and sexist against a woman
Ground Report | New Delhi: 'Radhey' star Randeep Hooda finds himself in the midst of a Twitter storm as the '#ArrestRandeepHoda' trend. A nine-year-old video surfaced again on the Internet, where the actor is seated with some people on stage in front of the audience and voluntarily decides to make a sexist and racist joke on Bahujan Samaj Party chief and former UP chief minister Mayawati. The 43-second clip was taken from an event organized by a media house in 2012 and a Twitter user shared the clip. Nine years later, netizens were not enough with Hooda's act to be classified as racist and sexist against a woman.
Then Randeep says, 'Once Mayawati is going with 2 children. At that time a man asks them if these two children are twins? So Mayawati says no, one is 4 years old and the other is 8 years old. After this, Randeep says something that people did not like.
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Now due to this comment of Randeep on social media, people are demanding to arrest him. Read Social Media Reactions-
On twitter user wrote, “Randeep Hooda made a dirty joke on Dalits massiah Mayawati. Mr Hooda women's are not the jokes .they are the creator of the nations. How he dare to disrespect Mayawati. This is the disrespect of all women's & nation on tolerance for such casteist people..”
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Another user wrote, "if this does not explain how casteist and sexist this society is, especially towards dalit women, i don’t know what will. the “joke”, the audacity, the crowd. Randeep Hooda, top bollywood actor talking about a dalit woman, who has been the voice of the oppressed".
Another User Wrote "Did Randeep Hooda apologise or came up with a response. Coz Going underground is cowardly & worst way to handle it. Come out, own up, defend or withdraw statement & apologise. Just don't be silent on something that is bothering so many people".
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