For 17 days, Sonam Wangchuk sat on an indefinite hunger strike at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. For most of those days, India’s entertainment industry had nothing to say. Then two Haryanvi artists broke that silence, and the fact that they did it together makes the story bigger than either one alone.
Why Is Sonam Wangchuk On Hunger Strike
Sonam Wangchuk began his fast on June 28 in support of the Cockroach Janta Party, a Gen Z-led protest group demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Protesters hold him responsible for irregularities and paper leaks in national exams that affected lakhs of students. As days passed, reports of Wangchuk losing weight and muscle mass turned the protest into a national concern, not just a student issue.
Why Is Bollywood Silent On Wangchuk
Wangchuk is not an unknown name. His story inspired Aamir Khan’s character in 3 Idiots, and he has spent decades building a reputation as one of India’s most respected voices on education and sustainable development. Despite that profile, only a handful of major entertainment names spoke up in the first two weeks of his fast. That silence itself became a talking point, questioned as much as the protest.
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Who Is Sonam Wangchuk?
Sonam Wangchuk is an engineer, education reformer, and climate activist from Ladakh. He is widely known as the real-life inspiration behind Aamir Khan’s character in 3 Idiots. Over three decades, he has built a reputation as one of India’s most respected voices on education reform and sustainable innovation in the Himalayas. This is not his first protest. He has fasted before, over Ladakh’s environmental and constitutional rights. But this time, the cause is different, and it has pulled in a much wider set of supporters.
RP Singh Support For Sonam Wangchuk
RP Singh posted a Story titled “The Protest Continues,” featuring an illustration of Wangchuk on Day 17 of his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar. The post was shared from Cockroach Janta Party’s Kerala unit, showing the protest’s support spreading well beyond Delhi, and RP Singh chose to carry that message to his own audience in Haryana.
Dhanda Nyoliwala Support For Sonam Wangchuk
Dhanda Nyoliwala changed his profile photo to a black-and-white portrait with the words “Stand For Truth” written across it. Coming from an artist with 4.5 million followers, the change did not go unnoticed. It travelled fast, picked up and shared well beyond his usual audience.
RP Singh Dhanda Nyoliwala Beef History
RP Singh and Dhanda Nyoliwala are not on good terms in the Haryanvi rap scene. Their rivalry has played out through songs, most notably “No Mercy” and “Rapgod,” and has been discussed and debated widely among Haryanvi hip-hop fans, with rapper KD also part of the wider dispute.
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Dhanda Nyoliwala has said in the past that there was no personal enmity behind it, framing it more as competitive energy than a real fight. But the tension between the two camps has been real enough to keep fans picking sides for a while now.
Rivals Unite Over Sonam Wangchuk Cause
Two artists who do not see eye to eye on most things found themselves on the same side of something bigger than their rivalry. Neither coordinated with the other. Neither needed to. When it came to Wangchuk’s fast, both reached the same conclusion independently, even if their support showed up separately online rather than together in one place.
Whether Bollywood speaks up or stays silent is the industry’s own call to make. What is notable here is simply this: two Haryanvi artists, who have a public rivalry between them, chose to use their individual platforms to comment on a national issue, without any coordination between them. That is the story, not a verdict on the protest itself.
What Happens Next
Wangchuk’s hunger strike is still ongoing, and the government’s response remains awaited. Whether more artists, from Haryana or elsewhere, choose to speak up is something only time will tell. Peddler Media will continue to track how the story develops, and how the public responds to it.
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