Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut is the BJP’s Lok Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi (File).
New Delhi:
The Congress ripped into Bharatiya Janata Get together MP Kangana Ranaut Tuesday afternoon following the actor-politician’s recent touch upon the three farm legal guidelines that have been on the core of the farmers’ protest of 2020.
Ms Ranaut has already been reprimanded once after earlier remarks on the farmers’ protests led to controversy, and a scathing assault from the Congress. A clarification accompanied that rebuke, which included a summons by party boss JP Nadda – that her feedback don’t symbolize the BJP’s views.
This time, chatting with reporters in her Lok Sabha constituency of Mandi at this time, Ms Ranaut stated the legal guidelines – rolled back by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in November 2021 after huge (and violent) nationwide agitations – “must be introduced again… (and) farmers themselves ought to demand it”.
“I do know this might be controversial… however I really feel the farms legal guidelines that have been repealed must be introduced again. The farmers themselves ought to demand it. They’re a pillar of energy for the nation’s growth and I need to enchantment to them – demand the legal guidelines again to your personal good,” she stated.
A livid Congress tweeted a video of her assertion and vowed “these black legal guidelines will (by no means be introduced again now)… irrespective of how laborious Modi and his MPs strive”.
किसानों पर लादे गए 3 काले कानून वापस लाने चाहिए
:- BJP की सांसद कंगना रनौत ने ये बात कही
देश के 750 से ज्यादा किसान शहीद हुए, तब जाकर मोदी सरकार की नींद टूटी और ये काले कानून वापस हुए.
अब BJP के सांसद फिर से इन कानून की वापसी का प्लान बना रहे हैं.
कांग्रेस किसानों के साथ है.… pic.twitter.com/O5N8kqQHT4
— Congress (@INCIndia) September 24, 2024
“Greater than 750 farmers have been martyred… solely then did the Modi authorities get up and these black legal guidelines have been withdrawn. Now BJP MPs are planning to carry them again… however Congress is with the farmers,” get together spokesperson Supriya Shrinate responded, pointing to subsequent week’s Haryana election.
The Congress and Kangana Ranaut have additionally gone head-to-head over the latter’s remark concerning the Himachal Pradesh authorities and ex-party boss Sonia Gandhi. The get together responded angrily to allegations its state authorities illegally transferred funds meant for catastrophe reduction to Ms Gandhi.
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The hill state’s Public Works Division Minister – Vikramaditya Singh – warned Ms Ranaut to both withdraw the accusation or face authorized motion.
Ms Ranaut’s newest jab comes days earlier than the Meeting election in Haryana, from the place lakhs of farmers marched on Delhi and took part in a number of blockades in opposition to town. The BJP is bidding to win the state for a 3rd consecutive time, however is conscious sad farmers might derail that hope.
The April-June common election served up a warning; the BJP scored a clear sweep of the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats within the 2019 ballot however obtained solely 5 this time, with the Congress successful the remaining.
That Ms Ranaut’s earlier assertion struck a jarring be aware was evident in the way in which the BJP’s Haryana and Punjab leaders reacted; she was advised it was not her place to talk on the farmers problem and voters have been reassured that the Prime Minister and his authorities are “farmer-friendly”.
The actor – whose newest movie, ‘Emergency’, is fighting for a censor certificate – is understood for provocative remarks. She can be a robust critic of the farmers’ protest; in 2020, because the protests have been gathering steam, she allegedly misidentified a lady farmer from Punjab and called her Bilkis Bano.
That swipe resurfaced in June this 12 months after she was slapped by a woman CISF officer.
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