Shekhar Suman had recently shared a tweet which read, "Dear all,Thank you for making my voice strong all this while.Allow me to plz take a backseat now.since the family is completely silent on this, it's making me very uncomfortable to go on.i guess its their prerogative and we all shld respect that."
In an exclusive interview with DNA, the actor, who had started 'Justice For Sushant Forum', demanding CBI inquiry for Sushant post his untimely demise on June 14, 2020, clarified his current stance on the matter. Shekhar also cleared why Sushant's family was not a part of the press conference in Patna, which had reportedly upset the family.
Here are some excerpts from the interview:
About your last tweet, did you back out of 'Justice For Sushant Forum'?
I am still part of the movement. I'm just going behind because I'm waiting for the family to say something. I'm not having their approval and it feels uncomfortable and weird that who are you fighting for? It's like, they stand up and say we don't want an inquiry and why are these guys going ahead and doing the inquiry when we don't want it. These are the questions that started cropping up in my mind. It has been a month and they still haven't said anything - not even a single line. That made me a little uncomfortable.
We respect their (Sushant's family) privacy and silence, but it would be nicer if they came forward and said something because it would make our case stronger. At first, I thought am I going too much out of my way to push this movement all by myself? Because there wasn't even a single voice coming from the film industry.
Now it has got to the point where Subramanian Swamy ji has written to the PM. Pappu Yadav has written to Amit Shah and said that he would look into the matter. We raised the issue for a month and now it has come to a point where politicians and big politicians have now noticed it. That's a bit of justice done already. Now I guess the full justice would be done once the CBI and judicial inquiry are ordered, and we then get a conclusion.
I am not backing out of this movement, just taking a back seat. It's a war, a movement, and I did it out of listening to my own heart. So whether people come or don't, I really don't care. It doesn't matter, as long as me or the fans are there behind supporting the cause.
There were also talks about the family being upset because they were not part of the press conference in Patna. Any reason why they were not invited?
I don't think one had to make a public tamasha out of it. First of all, the press conference was not my idea. I didn't want to do a press conference. It was Tejaswi Yadav who said it would be nicer if we just announce it publicly that I am supporting the forum. In the case of them (the family) remaining completely silent, it would have been wrong to invite them for something like this. What if they said that they weren't interested and that I should go ahead and do what I want? That would be an embarrassing situation.
As I said, it is my own personal movement. I'm fighting on an emotional ground for various reasons - A) I thought suddenly a 34-year-old boy who is doing so well in life, has no business to go. Even if suicide, what were the circumstances that led him to commit that suicide? It's terrible. If not suicide, there are far more reasons to investigate who are the people behind it, who made him do that? Either case, it's a huge tragedy that a father lost his son.
B) He is part of a film fraternity and I feel they say they are a family and close-knit, but none of his friends, co-stars or the big stars who could make a huge difference, came forward to say anything. That probably could have speeded up the whole inquiry.
Sushant wasn't my family, friend, or younger brother, but it was just an emotional connection of a human being. It was on humanitarian grounds. A man who was lively, throbbing, pulsating, who has achieved everything on his own, suddenly loses his life. I thought it needed a closure, which is why the whole movement started.
