Ram Gopal Varma comes out in support of Supreme Court’s stray dog ruling

Reactions all over the nation have been triggered by the Supreme Court's recent order to relocate all stray dogs in the Delhi-NCR area to shelters.

Strong opposition has been expressed by animal rights advocates and a number of Bollywood celebrities, who have called the action harsh and needless.

Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, on the other hand, has deviated from the majority by publicly supporting the court's position and igniting more discussion with his candid comments on social media.

Taking to X, the Sarkar director shared a string of posts in defence of the decision. He asserted that human life must take precedence, writing: “From a human beings perspective , humans come first, and like all living beings they have a right to defend themselves from any other species who pose a danger to them , be it mosquitoes or dogs ..And what I don’t understand about the so called animal lovers is , why is their love so selectively discriminate ? instead of restricting to dogs ,why don’t they equally love all God created creatures like rats, caterpillars , cockroaches and even CORONAVIRUS ?”

Varma went on to highlight what he sees as double standards among animal lovers. In another post, he pointed out: “Hey Animal Lovers , Chicken and fish are living beings too no ? So how come you kill . cut , cook and eat them ? All I am asking is why this discrimination between god created creatures ? It echoes how humans discriminate between caste , religion , colour etc .. How is it the caterpillars fault if God created it ugly ? If you are true to your love , you should replace your exotic dogs and gold fish with lizards, mosquitoes , lice , termites , maggots etc.”