Twitterati outraged over SRK being Jio's brand ambassador, trend #RemoveSRKFromJio

17 Sept 2016 11:04 AM IST

The actor had also attended Reliance Jio's free testing for in-house employees, last year.

The actor is currently filming for Imtiaz Ali's 'The Ring' in Amsterdam.

Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan, though hugely popular on social networking sites, was subjected to the dark side of it, on Friday. The actor got dragged into the on-going telecom war, post the grand entry of Reliance Jio.

A set of twitter users took to Twitter with the trend #JioRemoveSRK, asking for the actor to be pulled down as the brand ambassador of it.

Some even went to the extent of calling him an anti-nationalist, alluding to his infamous ‘intolerance’ comment.

Shah Rukh and composer AR Rahman had been present when Reliance Jio conducted a free test drive to its 150,000 employees, an event that had been viewed in over a 1000 locations across the globe.

Nevertheless, fans also started trending #JioOnlyForSRK, coming out in support of the star.