Aamir Khan ‘removed’ as brand ambassador of ‘Incredible India’

New Delhi, Jan 6: Weeks after Bollywood actor Aamir Khan courted controversy with his remarks on intolerance, the the government has reportedly removed him as brand ambassador of ‘Incredible India’ campaign.

The actor had kicked up a political storm with his remarks at a function in Delhi in November last year about his wife expressing fear for their child in the current atmosphere.

“As an individual, as part of this country as a citizen, we read in the papers what is happening, we see it on the news and certainly, I have been alarmed. I can’t deny. I have been alarmed by a number of incidents,” he said while speaking here at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards.

The actor said he also feels that the sense of insecurity and fear has been growing in the past six or eight months.

“When I chat with Kiran at home, she says ‘Should we move out of India?’ That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day.

“That does indicate that there is this sense of growing disquiet, there is growing despondency apart from alarm. You feel why this is happening, you feel low. That sense does exist in me,” 50-year-old Aamir said.