Actor Sonu Sood quits as Punjab state icon
8 January
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood announced on Friday that he’d stepped down as Punjab’s state icon just over a year after his appointment.
Sood, who was made the state icon soon after he made headlines for his humanitarian work in 2020, said he was stepping down because his sister was going to contest in the Punjab Assembly Elections later this year. The decision, he said in his tweet, was made after consulting the Election Commission of India.