New Delhi: Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Praveen Shankar Kapoor slammed actor Kangana Ranaut over her recent statement on country’s independence. Kapoor has also demanded the judiciary to take legal action against her. The Delhi BJP spokesperson said, “Ranaut’s remarks are an insult to the sacrifice of our freedom fighters”.
“Being the son of a freedom fighter and coming from a family of freedom fighters, I find Kangana Ranaut’s remarks that India’s freedom was alms (bheekh) as the biggest misuse of freedom and an insult to the sacrifice made by freedom fighters. I wish the judicial system of India takes cognizance,” Kapoor said in a tweet in Hindi on Thursday.
एक स्वतंत्रता सैनानी पिता का पुत्र होने एवं स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों के परिवार से आने का कारण #KangnaRanaut के द्वारा भारत की आजादी को भीख मे मिली आजादी कहना मुझे आजादी का सबसे बड़ा दुरुपयोग एवं स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों के त्याग का अपमान लगता है।
काश भारत की न्याय व्यवस्था संज्ञान ले।
— Praveen Shankar Kapoor (@praveenskapoor) November 11, 2021
The controversy began after Ranaut on Thursday said that India attained freedom in 2014 when the Modi-led government came to power and described the country’s Independence in 1947 as “bheek”, or alms.
Earlier on Thursday, BJP leader Varun Gandhi also criticised the actor for her comment.
He shared the viral video of the actor and said, “Sometimes an insult to Mahatma Gandhi’s sacrifice and penance, sometimes respect to his [Mahatma Gandhi’s] killer, and now an insult to the sacrifices of lakhs of freedom fighters — from Shaheed Mangal Pandey to Rani Laxmibai, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and more. Should I call this madness or treason?”
कभी महात्मा गांधी जी के त्याग और तपस्या का अपमान, कभी उनके हत्यारे का सम्मान, और अब शहीद मंगल पाण्डेय से लेकर रानी लक्ष्मीबाई, भगत सिंह, चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद, नेताजी सुभाष चंद्र बोस और लाखों स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों की कुर्बानियों का तिरस्कार।
इस सोच को मैं पागलपन कहूँ या फिर देशद्रोह? pic.twitter.com/Gxb3xXMi2Z
— Varun Gandhi (@varungandhi80) November 11, 2021
