Abu Azmi Takes A Dig On Karan Johar For Becoming A Father Through Surrogacy!
Updated : March 07, 2017 10:56 AM IST
Samajwadi Party leader Abu Asim Azmi on Monday took a dig at filmmaker Karan Johar for taking the surrogacy route to become a single father of twins.
The legislator from Shivajinagar-Mankhurd in Mumbai said the 44-year-old producer-director should have gotten married instead of opting for surrogacy to become a parent.
“Is he not finding a girl to get married? Is he ill... ? he should clarify. He could have adopted a poor child. This is a joke on poor people,” he told reporters outside the Vidhan Bhavan where the Budget session beganon Monday.
— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) March 5, 2017
Meanwhile, the filmmaker found support from Women and Child Welfare Minister of Maharashtra Pankaja Munde, who said Johar had every right to be a parent.
“He has done no wrong,” she said.
Johar has become a father of twins - a boy and a girl - who were born through surrogacy and the filmmaker said he is “enormously blessed” to be a parent. He has named his daughter Roohi and son Yash.
“I am ecstatic to share with you all the two most wonderful additions to my life, my children and lifelines; Roohi and Yash... I feel enormously blessed to be a parent to these pieces of my heart who were welcomed into this world with the help of the marvels of medical science,” Johar said in a statement on Sunday.