Even as he came under attack from&nbsp;sections in BJP, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan on Wednesday received&nbsp;support from ruling ally Shiv Sena which said the superstar&nbsp;should not be targeted only because he is a Muslim and that&nbsp;the minority community in India is "tolerant".&nbsp;
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"This country is tolerant and the Muslims are tolerant as&nbsp;well. Shah Rukh Khan should not be targeted only because he is&nbsp;a Muslim," Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut told PTI.&nbsp;
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/apr/15-SANJAY-RAUT.jpg" alt="Saamana executive editor and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut" width="670" height="600" /> Saamana executive editor and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya had yesterday triggered a&nbsp;controversy when he tweeted that Shah Rukh's "soul" is in&nbsp;Pakistan though he lives in India. His remarks came a day&nbsp;after the 50-year-old actor said there is "extreme&nbsp;intolerance" in the country.
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Earlier on Wednesday controversial BJP MP Yogi Adityanath&nbsp;compared Shah Rukh to Pakistani terrorist Hafiz Saeed, the&nbsp;mastermind of Mumbai carnage, over his "extreme intolerance"&nbsp;comment and also suggested that he go to Pakistan.&nbsp;
Slamming Vijayvargiya, Raut asked the BJP general&nbsp;secretary not to bring Pakistan into this debate on tolerance,&nbsp;saying that it is India's internal matter.
He said Shah Rukh is a superstar only because India is&nbsp;tolerant.&nbsp;"Shah Rukh Khan is a superstar only because the country is&nbsp;tolerant and has never thought in the name of religion," the&nbsp;Sena leader said.
However, Raut said Shah Rukh spoke quite late on the&nbsp;issue.
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"First of all Shah Rukh Khan should not have gotten into&nbsp;this debate on tolerance and secondly, out of the people who&nbsp;have returned their awards, the number of Muslims is almost&nbsp;negligible. Also, Shah Rukh spoke on the issue very late," he&nbsp;said.
Meanwhile, under fire for his remark against Shah Rukh,&nbsp;Vijayvargiya today withdrew his controversial tweets but&nbsp;asserted that had there been intolerance in India, Shah Rukh&nbsp;would not have been the most popular actor after Amitabh&nbsp;Bachchan.

Even as he came under attack from&nbsp;sections in BJP, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan on Wednesday received&nbsp;support from ruling ally Shiv Sena which said the superstar&nbsp;should not be targeted only because he is a Muslim

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