Kangana Ranaut
Maharashtra BJP chief slams Kangana Ranaut for her India's Independence remark
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Chandrakant Patil has slammed Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut for her controversial comment on India's Independence, which she called "bheek" or alms.
Talking to reporters, Patil said Ranaut can praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi's work but has no right to criticise the Independence struggle.
"Kangana Ranaut's comment on the country's fight for Independence is completely wrong. Nobody has a right to pass a negative remark on the freedom movement," Patil said as quoted by NDTV.
"After Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, the common man is having an experience of true freedom. Now, there is no one left in the country who cannot have two meals a day. The Union government is distributing 35 kg food grains to the poor at ₹ 105," he added.
Speaking at an event of a news channel, Ranaut said, "The British knew blood will flow but it should not be Hindustani blood. They knew it..."
"Of course it was not true independence but alms (in 1947). India got its true independence in 2014," she added.
Ranaut has surely meant India got its true independence in 2014 when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power with its popular leader Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister.
In view of the controversial actress' remark, several opposition parties including the Congress have demanded the revocation of the Padma Shri Award given to Ranaut recently.
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