{"id":96150,"date":"2026-01-03T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=96150"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:05:49","slug":"shahrukh-khan-faces-backlash-over-bangladeshi-player-pick-for-kkr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/shahrukh-khan-faces-backlash-over-bangladeshi-player-pick-for-kkr\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah Rukh Khan faces backlash over Bangladeshi player pick for KKR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Bollywood actor<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/life-style\/bollywoods-dhurandhar-sequel-to-hit-screens-in-2026\/\"> Shah Rukh Khan<\/a> is being heavily criticized for selecting a Bangladeshi player for Kolkata Knight Riders.<\/p>\n<p>He has been called a traitor by the Bharatiya Janata Party, with BJP&#8217;s Uttar Pradesh leader Sangeet Som slamming the actor for buying a Bangladeshi player by Kolkata Knight Riders amid the increasing atrocities against Hindus and other minorities in the neighboring country.<\/p>\n<p>He called Shah Rukh Khan a traitor for buying Bangladeshi fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman. The BJP leader warned that if the Bangladeshi player reaches India, he will not be allowed to leave the airport.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Shah Rukh Khan&#8217;s Kolkata Knight Riders have bought the only Bangladeshi player, Mustafizur Rahman, for Rs 9.2 crore. Shah Rukh Khan is currently under heavy criticism over this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan is being heavily criticized for selecting a Bangladeshi player for Kolkata Knight Riders. He has been called a traitor by the Bharatiya Janata Party, with BJP&#8217;s Uttar Pradesh leader Sangeet Som slamming the actor for buying a Bangladeshi player by Kolkata Knight Riders amid the increasing atrocities against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":37211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[2061],"class_list":["post-96150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-showbiz","tag-shah-rukh-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96151,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96150\/revisions\/96151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}