Actress Kangana Ranaut has found herself in between the controversies time and again because of her statements. And once again she is in trouble as National executive chairman of the Aam Aadmi Party Preethi Menon has filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police seeking an FIR against her. The report has been filed against the actress for her seditious remarks on the freedom movement.
Taking part in the annual summit of a national media network, guest speaker Kangana said “Woh azaadi nahi thi, woh bheek thi. Aur jo azaadi mili hai woh 2014 mai mili hai (That wasn’t freedom, those were alms. We got real freedom in 2014.)” Apparently referring to the BJP coming to power in 2014.
“Submitted an application to @MumbaiPolice requesting action on Kangana Ranaut for her seditious and inflammatory statements on @TimesNow, under sections 504, 505 and 124A. Hope to see some action” Preethi Menon tweeted.
Congress’s Gaurav Pandhi also showed his anger at Ranaut’s statement as he wrote “The RSS could never accept the fact that their British masters were forced to leave in 1947. Their slavery knew no bounds. No wonder they didn’t hoist the tricolour for half a century. The return of slavery in 2014 was their ‘independence’. Kangana Ranaut is just one of them.”
BJP MP Varun Gandhi asked whether it is madness or treason “Insulting the sacrifice of Mahatma Gandhi sometimes, respecting his killer sometimes, and now the disdain for the sacrifices of Mangal Pandey, Rani Laxmibai, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and lakhs of freedom fighters. Should I call this thinking madness or treason?” Gandhi wrote.
Varun further called Kangana an anti-national. “It is an anti-national act and must be called out as such. To not do so would be a betrayal of all those who shed blood so that today we may stand tall and free as a nation,” Varun Gandhi quoted.
Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi too was among others to express her disapproval as she termed Kangana as one of the ‘WhatsApp history fans and said, “All the blood, sweat and balidan of our freedom fighters including Jhansi ki Rani dismissed to please the master.”
Kangana who will be soon seen in Tejas, recently visited the Andaman, Nicobar Islands and was there at Veer Savarkar’s cell. The actor claimed history has been distorted by omitting many parts and depriving many heroes of their due credit. “The British were acutely aware that blood will flow but they decided whose blood will flow. It should not be their blood. And for that, they needed some people who could help them so that India blood flows but not theirs. These are the people who are labelled as liberals or the Congress. When you got conquered after a fight, how can you get independence as ‘bheekh’,” She said.
