NEW DELHI: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday whipped up a recent row along with her social media put up on the delivery anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. The actor-turned politician’s collection of posts on this regard had been met with criticism from the Congress party, which deemed her remarks as downplaying Gandhi’s stature because the Father of the Nation.
In her first Instagram story, Kangana Ranaut wrote, “Desh ke pita nahi, desh ke to lal hote hai.Dhanye hain Bharat maa ke ye lal (Nation doesn’t have fathers; it has sons. Blessed are these sons of Mom India)”. In a comply with up story, the actor praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking ahead Gandhi’s legacy on cleanliness within the nation.
The actor, who beforehand confronted backlash for her feedback on the farmers’ protests, but once more discovered herself in the course of an issue with the Congress celebration branding her feedback as “lewd and condemnable” in opposition to Mahatma Gandhi.
“BJP MP Kangana made this lewd jibe on Mahatma Gandhi’s delivery anniversary. Godse worshippers draw distinctions between Bapu and Shastri ji. Will Narendra Modi wholeheartedly forgive his celebration’s new Godse devotee? There’s the Father of the Nation, there are sons, and there are martyrs. Everybody deserves respect,” Congress nationwide spokesperson Supriya Shrinate mentioned in a put up on X.
In the meantime, Manoranjan Kalia, a senior BJP chief from Punjab additionally hit out at Ranaut for her the off the cuff remarks. “I condemn Kangana Ranaut’s feedback made on Gandhi ji’s a hundred and fifty fifth delivery anniversary. In her quick political profession, she has developed a behavior of constructing controversial statements,” Kalia mentioned based on information company PTI.
“Politics is just not her subject. Politics is a severe affair. One should suppose earlier than talking… Her controversial remarks trigger hassle for the celebration,” he added.
This comes weeks after Kangana Ranaut confronted backlash over her remarks on the now rolled-back farm legal guidelines. She had alleged that the farmers’ agitation in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines was resulting in a “Bangladesh-type state of affairs in India”, claiming that “lifeless our bodies had been hanging, and rapes had been going down” on the protest websites.
After backlash, the BJP Mandi MP retracted her assertion and mentioned that her remarks didn’t replicate the ideology of the saffron celebration.
