Haridwar, Jan. 2 -- BJP leader Sangeet Singh Som backed the remarks of spiritual leader Devkinandan Thakur and launched a sharp attack against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan over the inclusion of a Bangladeshi player in the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team, calling him a "traitor."

"The way Hindus are being persecuted in Bangladesh, women and girls are being raped, their homes are being burned, and anti-India slogans are being chanted there. Despite all this, traitors like Shah Rukh Khan, I'm calling him a traitor because everything he has is given by India, given by the people of India, but where do they invest this money? They invest it in players from a country that is working against India," he told ANI on Thursday.

"I want to tell ...