Maharashtra Congress To Take Legal Actions Against Actor Kangana Ranaut For Her Statement Against Mahatma Gandhi
Sharing an old newspaper article from the 1940s, she said, either you are a Gandhi fan or Netaji supporter
Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress Chief Nana Patole on Wednesday said that they will take legal action against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for her alleged statement against Mahatma Gandhi and register an official complaint with Mumbai police.
“Maharashtra Congress to take legal action against actor Kangana Ranaut for her derogatory statement against Mahatma Gandhi Congress will register an official complaint against her with Mumbai police,” Nana Patole.
Sharing an old newspaper article from the 1940s with the headline, ‘Gandhi, others had agreed to hand over Netaji,’ Kangana on her Instagram stories wrote, “Either you are a Gandhi fan or Netaji supporter. You can’t be both, choose and decide.”
Taking a dig at Mahatma Gandhi, she added, “Those are the ones who taught us if someone slaps you offer another cheek for one more slap and that is how you will get aazadi. That’s not how one gets aazadi, one can only get bheekh like that. Choose your heroes wisely.”
Kangana further claimed that Gandhi “never supported Bhagat Singh or Subhas Chandra Bose. “So, you need to choose who you support because just placing them all in one box of your memory and every year wishing them all on their birth anniversaries is not enough. In fact, it is not just dumb, it is highly irresponsible and superficial. One must know their history and their heroes,” the actor added.
In her next IG Story, Kangana said that freedom fighters were handed over to the British by those who had no courage to fight oppression but were “power-hungry” and “cunning”.
Last week at a summit the actor had stirred controversy after saying that India’s independence was a bheekhi (handout). At the time, she also claimed that the country got its real Independence after 2014 when the PM Modi led BJP government came into power.
Several politicians and others have demanded the Centre to take back Kangana’s Padma Shri honour for insulting the country’s independence battle.
Kangana had received the prestigious award from President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony hosted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the capital on November 8.
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