Even after turning as a politician and elected to the Lok Sabha, Bollywood `firebrand actress’ Kangana Ranaut continues in generating a new controversy every time, pushing her own party BJP into an embarrassing situation. Her own party leaders are condemning her `immature’ comments and the party itself distancing itself from her on many occasions.
On the day of Gandhi Jayanthi, she created an uproar with a social media post about Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. The actor, who previously faced backlash for her comments on the farmers’ protests, paid homage to Shastri on his 120th birth anniversary through a post that appeared to downplay Gandhi’s stature as the Father of the Nation.
“Desh ke pita nahi, desh ke to lal hote hai. Dhanye hai Bharat ma ke ye lal (The country does not have fathers; it has sons. Blessed are these sons of Mother India)” Ranaut wrote on her Instagram Stories. In a follow-up post, the actor credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for carrying forward Gandhi’s legacy on cleanliness in the country.
The Congress leader Supriya Shrinate took the BJP MP from Mandi’s comment seriously and lamented her “lewd jibe” at Gandhi. “BJP MP Kangana made this lewd jibe on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary. Godse worshippers draw distinctions between Bapu and Shastri ji. Will Narendra Modi wholeheartedly forgive his party’s new Godse devotee? There is the Father of the Nation, there are sons, and there are martyrs. Everyone deserves respect,” Shrinate said in a post on X.
Meanwhile, Manoranjan Kalia, a senior BJP leader from Punjab, strongly condemned Ranaut for her latest remarks. “I condemn Kangana Ranaut’s comments made on Gandhiji’s 155th birth anniversary. In her short political career, she has developed a habit of making controversial statements,” Kalia said in a video posted on social media.
Reminding that politics is not her field and politics is a serious affair, he cautioned her that one must think before speaking as her controversial remarks cause trouble for the party.
Only last month BJP faced the most embarrassing situation during crucial Haryana elections as she advocated the return of the three farm laws repealed in 2021. Moreover, soon after her election to the Lok Sabha in June, she created uproar alleging that the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws was leading to a “Bangladesh-type situation in India”, claiming that “dead bodies were hanging, and rapes were taking place” at the protest sites.
