Kangana Ranaut’s Latest Jab Draws Congress Fury

Kangana Ranaut’s Latest Jab Draws Congress Fury


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 Party MP Kangana Ranaut Tuesday afternoon following the actor-politician’s recent touch upon the three farm legal guidelines that had been on the core of the farmers’ protest of 2020.

Ms Ranaut has already been reprimanded as soon as 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 get together boss JP Nadda – that her feedback don’t characterize the BJP’s views.

This time, chatting with reporters in her Lok Sabha constituency of Mandi in the present day, Ms Ranaut mentioned the legal guidelines – rolled again by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities in November 2021 after large (and violent) nationwide agitations – “needs to be introduced again… (and) farmers themselves ought to demand it”.

“I do know this will likely be controversial… however I really feel the farms legal guidelines that had been repealed needs to be introduced again. The farmers themselves ought to demand it. They are a pillar of energy for the nation’s growth and I wish to enchantment to them – demand the legal guidelines again on your personal good,” she mentioned.

A livid Congress tweeted a video of her assertion and vowed “these black legal guidelines will (by no means be introduced again now)… regardless of how exhausting Modi and his MPs attempt”.

“More than 750 farmers had been martyred… solely then did the Modi authorities get up and these black legal guidelines had been withdrawn.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 aid to Ms Gandhi.

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The hill state’s Public Works Department 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 Assembly election in Haryana, from the place lakhs of farmers marched on Delhi and took part in a number of blockades towards town. The BJP is bidding to win the state for a 3rd consecutive time, however is conscious sad farmers may 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 acquired solely 5 this time, with the Congress profitable the remaining.

That Ms Ranaut’s earlier assertion struck a jarring observe 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 situation and voters had been reassured that the Prime Minister and his authorities are “farmer-friendly”.

The actor – whose newest movie, ‘Emergency’, is preventing for a censor certificates – is understood for provocative remarks. She can be a powerful critic of the farmers’ protest; in 2020, because the protests had been gathering steam, she allegedly misidentified a lady farmer from Punjab and known as her Bilkis Bano.

That swipe resurfaced in June this yr after she was slapped by a lady CISF officer.

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