“With Kangana Ranaut”: Union Minister Backs Actor After “Mumbai-PoK” Row

Mumbai:

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Friday spoke out in favour of Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut, who had mentioned Mumbai felt “like Pakistan-occupied Kashmir”, and slammed the Shiv Sena for announcing the film celebrity will have to no longer go back to the town.

Talking to information company ANI, Mr Athawale, president of the Republican A part of India and an best friend of the BJP which regulations the centre, mentioned whilst he didn’t know all the fact, however feedback by means of Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut had been “completely uncalled for”.

“Raut is a superb pal of mine. He’s a Shiv Sena chief, a birthday celebration spokesperson in addition to the Saamana editor. I do not know all the fact but when in any respect he has threatened the actress it’s slightly unlucky. We’re all with Ranaut and circle of relatives in her combat for justice to Sushant Singh Rajput,” Mr Athawale mentioned.

The BJP distanced itself from Ms Ranaut’s remarks however some leaders condemned Shiv Sena protests towards the actor.

The ladies’s wing of the Shiv Sena had performed protests towards her in Mumbai and Thane, and had shouted slogans in addition to slapped slippers on her pictures and effigies.

Taking to Twitter, former Leader Minister and BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis’s spouse Amruta Fadnavis mentioned, “We would possibly not believe what somebody has to mention, however we should shield the fitting to specific in democracy! Freedom of speech, freedom of trust, freedom of motion, freedom of press-cannot b suppressed! We will have counter arguments however beating posters of critics with chappals is a brand new low.”

Former state minister and BJP chief Ashish Shelar, in the meantime, mentioned, “We totally disagree with Kangana’s feedback about Mumbai and citizens of this town. I additionally need to ask Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut to not assault BJP from the shoulders of actor Ranaut.”

Kangana Ranaut prompted fashionable outrage on Thursday for announcing the town “felt like Pakistan-occupied Kashmir” and doubled down at the remarks an afternoon later, in comparison the ruling coalition to “Taliban”.

Maharashtra House Minister Anil Deshmukh mentioned she had no right to stay in Mumbai if she feels unsafe and had such disparaging issues to mention for the police pressure that used to be sacrificing its lives in instances of the coronavirus pandemic.

A vocal supporter of High Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP, which is in opposition in Maharashtra, Kangana Ranaut has been attacking the federal government and the police for weeks over the dying of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in June.

(With inputs from ANI)