'Poking fun at ISRO' — BJP worker files complaint against Prakash Raj over Chandrayaan joke

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New Delhi:As Kannada actor Prakash Rajs Vikram Lander tweet evoked reactions from social media users, a local leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) approached the police to lodge a formal complaint against the film personality for poking fun at ISRO scientists...

On Sunday, Prakash Raj shared a picture on Twitter featuring a cartoon depicting a man in a shirt and a lungi seemingly a Malayali pouring tea on the Moons surface...

Meanwhile, Prakash Raj came out with two tweets on Tuesday and Wednesday to hit back at trolls, who attacked him for allegedly belittling a project of national importance.. i was referring to a joke of #Armstrong times .. celebrating our kerala Chaiwala .. which Chaiwala did the TROLLS see ??.

The original post had opened the floodgates of criticisms with a section criticising Raj for his anti-national comments, while several others tried to point out that it was merely a popular joke that Malyalis are found in every corner of the planet and beyond...

A social media user had pointed out that the joke is from the first Moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin that when they first stepped foot on the lunar surface, they found a Malayali selling tea an ode to the communitys exemplary entrepreneurial spirit...

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