HOODA REMOVED AS UN BODY ENVOY FOR MAYA ‘JOKE’

Mumbai: Actor Randeep Hooda was removed as envoy of United Nation’s environmental treaty, for his derogatory comments against Mayawati.

Mumbai, May 28: Actor Randeep Hooda has been removed as the ambassador of Convention for the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), United Nation’s environmental treaty, following the controversy over his derogatory comments against Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati.

Hooda has been under fire since Wednesday when a nineyear-old video of him making a “joke”, which social media users termed casteist and sexist, went viral online.

The 43-second-clip from an event organised by a media house in 2012 resurfaced when a Twitter user shared it. The video has Hooda cracking a joke and then laughing along with the audience.

In a statement posted on its website, CMS said the organisation finds the comments in the video to be “offensive” and Hooda will no longer serve as the ambassador for them.

The actor was appointed as the CMS Ambassador for Migratory Species in 2020 for three years.