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New Delhi, June 11 (TNS): Days after the network apologised for the controversy,\u00a0 fringe group Hindu Sena organised protests against the\u00a0Baywatch<\/em>\u00a0actor for \u201cdegrading Hindus as terrorists and saying India sponsors terror to \u201cframe\u201d Pakistan,\u201d\u00a0Republic World\u00a0<\/em>reported.<\/p>\n Protesters were seen carrying\u00a0placards reading\u00a0\u201cPriyanka Chopra is a traitor, send her to Pakistan\u201d.\u00a0There have also been calls to boycott Chopra\u2019s work and brands she endorses.<\/p>\n \u201cStarted her career by crying foul about being ill-treated and being victim of racism in United States, Priyanka Chopra used derogatory reference to India and Hindus in her American series,\u00a0Quantico,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>a statement by the group\u00a0read.<\/p>\n \u201cA woman, who is a daughter of an Indian Army officer, who got a chance to represent India and was crowned Miss World, Bollywood actor and part of other national and international humanitarian projects and UN goodwill mmbassador has stooped to such lows to gain a few dollars and some fame and a desperate attempt to fit in international circle(s) is utterly shameful and disgraceful,\u201d the document goes on to read.<\/p>\n PeeCee took to Twitter and apologised following the furore.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0extremely\u00a0saddened and sorry that some sentiments have been hurt by a recent episode of\u00a0Quantico.<\/em>\u00a0That was not and would never be my intention. I sincerely apologise. I\u2019m a proud Indian and that will never change,\u201d Priyanka tweeted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe episode has\u00a0stirred\u00a0a lot of emotion, much of which is unfairly aimed at Priyanka Chopra, who didn\u2019t create the show, nor does she write or direct it,\u201d said Walt Disney-owned\u00a0ABC<\/em>\u00a0in its statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Delhi, June 11 (TNS): Days after the network apologised for the controversy,\u00a0 fringe group Hindu Sena organised protests against the\u00a0Baywatch\u00a0actor for \u201cdegrading Hindus as terrorists and saying India sponsors terror to \u201cframe\u201d Pakistan,\u201d\u00a0Republic World\u00a0reported. Protesters were seen carrying\u00a0placards reading\u00a0\u201cPriyanka Chopra is a traitor, send her to Pakistan\u201d.\u00a0There have also been calls to boycott […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073,1770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68553,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68551\/revisions\/68553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}