Emraan Hashmi requests meeting with Prakash Javdekar to discuss education system ahead of Cheat India

Emraan Hashmi has requested to meet Union Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javdekar this week in Delhi to discuss the Indian education system and its future. The actor’s film Cheat India, which is slated to hit screens on 18 January , focuses on the malpractices prevalent in the Indian higher education sector.

Citing that student suicides are increasing “multifold’, Emraan wrote on Twitter:

Student suicides increasing multifold. Thane-based Shamista Som is the next unfortunate casualty of the exam system. Couldn't handle MD exams pressure.

Would love to meet our HRD Min Shri @prakashjavdekar this week in #Delhi to discuss our system and its future. #cheatindia

— Emraan Hashmi (@emraanhashmi) January 8, 2019

On 5 January, Aditya Thackeray had tweeted an image of a news report on education minister Vinod Tawde ordering the arrest of a student for allegedly live recording an interaction. Thackeray wrote, “Every student must read this. ‘The education minister of Maharashtra directs cops to arrest student.’ Why? Because he was shooting an interaction! No tough questions please! They want Youth only to man their electoral booths, not answer questions about education & jobs.”

Emraan Hashmi reshared Thackeray’s post with the caption, #ThisisCheatIndia. Soon enough, the story began trending on Twitter.

Cheat India, which was slated to release on 25 January alongside Thackeray, was moved to 18 January to avoid the box ffice clash Shiv Sena supremo’s biopic.