Congress politician backs Deepika Padukone after she’s trolled for open relationship remark

Actor Deepika Padukone, who openly discussed her past open relationship with Ranveer Singh on ‘Koffee With Karan 8’, has been facing brutal online trolling. Even though Deepika has decided to remain silent, a number of prominent figures have come out in support of her, with the most recent being Congress politician Supriya Shrinate.

Taking to Instagram, Supriya defended Deepika against the trolls and emphasised her extraordinary achievements.


She wrote, ‘What have we become?

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A couple sits together on a talk show and talks about their relationship, their marriage, their courtship. A young woman, who is a super achiever talks about her struggles with mental health – she actually emboldens many more to deal with this unspoken demon. A young man, no mean achiever either, talks about how he stood by her when she went through the trauma.’

She continued, ‘In her post, Supriya called out the trolls for engaging in character assassination of Deepika. She wrote, “Instead of applauding their courage to speak about issues that we brush under the carpet as a society – they, especially the woman has become the subject of vicious trolling, character assassination and vulgar memes. Why can’t people handle reality, why do raw human emotions make them uncomfortable, why does everything have to be candy flossed, why have people become this bitter, so full of hate, so inhumane and so judgmental? But the truth is that the hate which is peddled, makes no difference to people it’s directed towards. Because hate and abuse comes from anonymous, insignificant people unhappy and angry with their own lives and anxiety.’

‘These same petty trolls will be the first to hound her for a selfie were they ever to cross paths – these folks actually need affection and I pray they find love too! Because love just doesn’t make your world go round, it makes you a better human being. And like she said don’t make the mistake of thinking she is stoppable!,’ Supriya concluded.

Earlier, comedian-actor Vir Das also voiced his support for Deepika. He wrote, ‘Moment of silence for all the men who are upset that a Bollywood star way out of their league was casually dating for a while, and wasn’t as committed as their imaginary girlfriend is to them.’

What Deepika said on ‘Koffee With Karan 8’
Deepika revealed that until Ranveer proposed to her in 2015, they were technically allowed to see other people. She said, ‘I wanted to be single for a while because I had come from difficult relationships. I was going through a phase where I said ‘I just don’t want to be attached, don’t want to be committed’. And I had fun. And then he comes along, so I didn’t ‘commit commit’, until he proposed to me. There was no ‘commitment as such. Even if we were technically allowed to see other people, we would just keep coming back to each other.’

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