Salman Khan again urges protesters to return home safely.
Salman Khan also appealed to education reformer Sonam Wangchuk to end his indefinite hunger strike and prioritise his health.
- Salman Khan urged students to return home and trust that action would be taken.
- He said the safety and education of students should remain the top priority.
- He asked Sonam Wangchuk to end his hunger strike and take care of his health.
- He backed the students’ peaceful movement and warned against political hijacking.
- Other film personalities have also shown solidarity with the protest.
Salman Khan’s appeal has added a calmer, more human voice to a protest season that has often felt tense and unforgiving. In asking students to go home and trust that the government will act, he is trying to reduce fear, but he is also stepping into a debate that has already become deeply emotional.
The actor said students should not worry because their safety and education are the top priority, and he pointed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of fast-track courts as proof that strict action will follow. That message is reassuring in tone, but it also reflects how public figures are now trying to reassure young people who have spent weeks seeing their demands met with noise, police action, and political blame.
His post also carried a softer, almost older-brother kind of concern when he addressed Sonam Wangchuk directly and asked him not to extend the hunger strike. That part of the message mattered because it shifted the focus from politics to health. Hunger strikes can inspire people, but they also push bodies and families to a painful limit, and Salman’s appeal seemed to recognize that without turning it into a lecture.
The background to his comments is a movement that has only grown more visible since June 20, when students gathered at Jantar Mantar demanding accountability over alleged NEET irregularities and reforms in the exam system. The agitation gained further force after Wangchuk joined with an indefinite hunger strike, making the issue harder for the government to treat as just another protest.
There is something striking about the way celebrities have entered this story. Some are speaking in anger, some with sadness, and some with caution. Salman’s note lands somewhere in the middle: sympathetic, but also urging patience. He is not dismissing the protest; he is trying to steer it away from exhaustion and escalation.
That matters because the students have already carried a heavy emotional burden. For many of them, the paper leak controversy is not simply about one exam, but about the feeling that effort can be undone by corruption and delay. When a public figure says “go home” in that context, it can sound either caring or condescending depending on who is listening. Salman’s broader message suggests he intended the former: a request for calm, not surrender.
His warning that the movement should not be hijacked politically is also important. It reflects a fear shared by many protesters themselves, namely that the original purpose of the movement — fair exams and accountability — could be buried under party competition. In that sense, he echoed a concern that has been repeated by others in the film world as well: keep the focus on students, not on political point-scoring.
What makes this moment resonate is not just that a star spoke up, but that he spoke like someone trying to reduce pain rather than amplify it. The protests may continue, the court and cabinet decisions may follow, and the political arguments may sharpen further. But for one brief moment, Salman Khan’s message was less about confrontation and more about telling worried students that they are seen, they matter, and they do not have to carry this alone.