Last Updated:<\/span>July 24, 2026, 23:00 IST<\/p>\n Munawar Faruqui criticizes celebs for late protest support<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Munawar Faruqui took to Instagram today to pen a strong-worded post regarding the ongoing NEET protests. The actor and comedian didn\u2019t bat an eye while questioning the silence of celebrities on the issue. He asked the stars why they suddenly found voice after 25 days of the protest.<\/p>\n Munawar wrote in his note, \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing most celebrities suddenly finding their voice only after the PM spoke and public sentiment shifted. For last 25 days, most stayed silent while young people took to the streets, faced criticism and paid the price for speaking up. If you are going to take a stand, do it without fear, not only when its safe. Support driven by pressure or public opinion isn\u2019t courage, its convenience.”<\/p>\n \u201cHad more influential voices spoken up weeks earlier, perhaps the situation wouldn\u2019t have escalated the way it did,” he concluded.<\/p>\n Take a look:<\/p>\n The CJP-led protests have continued for over two weeks, with students and job aspirants demanding accountability over alleged irregularities in the education sector, particularly the NEET paper leak. The protesters are also seeking the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and broader reforms to the examination system. Earlier this month, social activist Sonam Wangchuk joined the movement and began a hunger strike at Delhi\u2019s Jantar Mantar.<\/p>\n He called off his 26-day hunger strike late Thursday night at Gurugram\u2019s Medanta Hospital in the presence of Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh.<\/p>\n Handpicked stories, in your inbox<\/p>\n A newsletter with the best of our journalism<\/p>\n submit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.news18.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Updated:July 24, 2026, 23:00 IST Munawar Faruqui criticized celebrities for their delayed response to student protests, speaking up only after 25 days. He called their silence disappointing. Munawar Faruqui criticizes celebs for late protest support Munawar Faruqui took to Instagram today to pen a strong-worded post regarding the ongoing NEET protests. The actor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2515870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[339968,496498,496499,478309,496497,496214,492888,496218],"class_list":["post-2515869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-celebrity-silence","tag-delhi-police","tag-jantar-mantar","tag-munawar-faruqui","tag-munawar-faruqui-student-protests","tag-neet","tag-sonam-wangchuk","tag-student-protests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Munawar-Faruqui-Asks-Why-Celebrities-Stayed-Silent-For-25-Days.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515871,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515869\/revisions\/2515871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Munawar Faruqui criticized celebrities for their delayed response to student protests, speaking up only after 25 days. He called their silence disappointing.<\/h2>\n
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