{"id":664727,"date":"2026-11-02T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664727\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:52:10","slug":"cong-targets-centre-over-big-bs-bulletproof-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/664727\/","title":{"rendered":"Cong targets Centre over Big B&#8217;s bulletproof appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMaharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant on Monday said megastar Amitabh Bachchan is forced to shield himself with a bulletproof glass screen due to &#8216;gangster-related fear&#8217; as he targeted the Centre over the law and order situation.<\/p>\n<p>Bachchan on Sunday greeted fans from behind a protective bulletproof glass screen. The screen appeared two weeks after actor Tiger Shroff was shot at in Juhu. Lawrence Bishnoi group has purportedly claimed responsibility for the firing incident.<\/p>\n<p>Demanding a &#8216;Namo Bollywood Life Security Scheme&#8217;, Sawant sarcastically said every Bollywood actor should be allotted badge number 786, as depicted in an old movie of Bachchan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is ironic that the actor, once known as the &#8216;Angry Young Man&#8217;, is now apparently living under the shadow of gangster-related fear. Does this picture reflect the situation in the country?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Sawant said Bachchan, who had earlier tweeted about petrol prices and the depreciation of the rupee, should now post messages such as &#8216;Modi hai toh mumkin hai&#8217; and &#8216;the country is in safe hands&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a dig at the BJP, Sawant invoked the famous dialogue from Bachchan&#8217;s iconic film Sholay:   &#8220;There is only one man who can save you from Gabbar&#8217;s terror, Gabbar himself&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is only one party that can save you from the BJP&#8217;s terror, the BJP itself,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sawant alleged that the gangster whose fear had prompted Bachchan to move behind bulletproof glass was comfortably lodged in Sabarmati Jail.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant on Monday said megastar Amitabh Bachchan is forced to shield himself with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[220,458,17281,146,85,616,6453,46,243105,57,243106,243104],"class_list":["post-664727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-columns","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-india-news","tag-interviews","tag-israel","tag-live-commentary","tag-live-updates","tag-news-india","tag-rediff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}