Renowned celebrities from Bollywood, sports and business fraternities have always been known to be an instrumental force in supporting noble causes, philanthropic work and charitable activities.
Bollywood celebrities, including the young guns, have stepped up to assume responsibility and contribute in their own ways. From Janhvi Kapoor to Ananya Panday, and Arjun Kapoor to Bhumi Pednekar and Tamannaah Bhatia, the large-hearted souls have come forward to support AKHIL BHARTIYA TERAPANTH YUVAK PARISHAD (ABTYP)’s Mega Blood Donation Drive (MBDD) – a simultaneous nationwide collection on 17th September, 2022.
Ahead of the countrywide blood donation drive, several Bollywood celebs have come forward to extend support to the drive on social media. They expressed their gratitude for being part of such a philanthropic activity and urged everyone to join the cause. Many celebs like Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Rajkummar Rao, Sonu Sood, Vidyut Jammwal, Boney Kapoor, director Aanand L. Rai, Tamannaah Bhatia, Bipasha Basu, Raveena Tandon, Tusshar Kapoor, Karan Kundra and others tweeted and shared stories on social media in support of the campaign, and showed eagerness to support the event on 17th September - PM Shri Narendra Modi's birthday.
Shilpa Shetty Kundra tweeted - "On the occasion of Hon PM’s birthday, let’s join forces with this noble initiative: ‘#RaktdaanAmritMahotsav’… world’s biggest blood donation drive: http://eraktkosh.in
SevaAndGratitude #HappyBirthdayPM #ChangeWithin #ABTYP @MoHFW_INDIA @PMOIndia @iMdonatingBlood"
"I proudly support dis noble initiative & urge u to join World’s biggest blood donation drive on the occasion of our Hon PM’s birthday.
http://eraktkosh.in #RaktdaanAmritMahotsav
SevaAndGratitude #HappyBirthdayPM
ChangeWithin #ABTYP @MoHFW_INDIA @PMOIndia @imdonatingBlood" - tweeted actor Rajkummar Rao.
Actor Sanjay Dutt shared the post and captioned it - "Honoured and proud to be associated with an initiative as noble and massive as #RaktdaanAmritMahotsav, on the occasion of PM Modi's birthday. I request all of you to come forward in huge numbers to join hands in ensuring safe availability of regular non-remunerated blood opportunities and bring a #ChangeWithin."
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The MBDD is certainly getting bigger with every passing day as a lot of celebrities have joined the noble cause. In the past, notable names like Rajinikanth, Shah Rukh Khan, Chiranjeevi, R Madhavan, Vaani Kapoor, Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty have also supported the cause.
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Not to forget, the other popular names from Bollywood including Vivek Oberoi, Bhagyashree, Abhimanyu Dassani, Anuradha Paudwal, Sunil Grover, Abhijeet and Sailesh Lodha (Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma fame) had also supported the noble mission of ABTYP and has wholeheartedly joined the cause of creating awareness around the nationwide organisation of MBDD, urging people to come forward in huge numbers and support it and thereby creating impact in 20 states, 1000 cities with 2000 camps along with the combined efforts of more than 25000 volunteers, many NGOs and the government's support.
Not just in India, the MBDD will take place simultaneously in 27 other countries on 17th September including Asia and South Africa encouraging the most massive blood donation of all time! Government initiative of Raktdaan Amrit Mahotsav jointly organized by Government and ABTYP.