Kangana Ranaut’s bheekh” statement stirred up fury after she said at a conclave that India gained real freedom in 2014.
Kangana Ranaut’s bheekh” statement stirred up rage after she said at a conclave that India gained real freedom in 2014 and declared that the independence of 1947 was mere alms or “bheekh”
Many Politicians Upset with Her”
Sources say that L. K. Advani is Upset with Kangana, This Still Has to be Verified, but A Video Was Released Declaring This:
While Prime Minister Narender Modi is always predictably silent in moments like this, and more so would be since Kangana was lavishing praises over the Prime Minister by establishing 2014, the year he got elected, was true freedom for India, if L.K. Advani really said this, it is a refreshing change. L.K. Advani of BJP, 94 years old purportedly said that it made him angry when people say that they got real freedom only in 2014 and that the 1947 “azaadi” was “bheekh”.
Lal Krishna Advani is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004 under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Advani is one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a longtime member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, (RSS).
Kangana’s comment is being severely criticized from several quarters:
Maharashtra BJP Chief Chandrakant Patil on Friday said actor Kangana Ranaut’s comment that the Independence India won in 1947 was “bheek” (alms) was completely wrong. Ranaut can appreciate PM Modi’s work over the last seven years but she has no right to criticize the Independence struggle, Patil told reporters.
The Churu Police near Hanumangarh (Rajasthan) has registered a case against Kangana Ranaut on a complaint by Congress over her remark that “India got freedom in bheek”.
Varun Gandhi of BJP also slammed Kangana for her comment calling it madness or treason.
Gaurav Pandhi, the Congress’ digital communications, and social media coordinator said 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 tricolor for half a century. The return of slavery in 2014 was their ‘independence’. Kangana Ranaut is just one of them.”
Reacting to Ranaut’s remarks, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said her statement has shown what happens when people who are not deserving of Padma awards are given these honors.
Gourav Vallabh said, “I demand that Kangana Ranaut should make a public apology to all Indians because of her statement, our freedom movement and our freedom fighters’ sacrifice were insulted,”
“The government of India should take back the prestigious Padma award from such a lady who is insulting Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Bhagat Singh, Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. If the government is giving her Padma award, it means the government is promoting these kinds of people,” Vallabh said.
What Kangana Ranaut has said is “direct treason”, he added.
Salman Soz pointed out in his Twitter post that some people clapped when Ranaut said India’s real independence was in 2014 because 1947 was a charity case. He also recalled the millions who “resisted the British, those who were killed or jailed, those who loved India”.
National executive chairman of the Aam Aadmi Party Preethi Menon has filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police seeking an FIR against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut.
Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi compared Ranaut’s remarks to another BJP member who recently claimed that India has been given freedom as a lease for 99 years.
Priyanka Chaturvedi said, “New Ruchi Pathak on the block. From 99 years lease to bheek main mili azaadi. All the blood, sweat and balidan (sacrifice) of our freedom fighters including Jhansi ki Rani dismissed to please the master. The WhatsApp history fans.”
Historian S Irfan Habib, wrote on Twitter, “Shamelessness is abysmal”.
Actor Swara Bhasker, who also shared the video clip on her Twitter page, wondered about those who were heard clapping at Ranaut’s comments.
“Who are the idiots who are clapping is what I want to know,” wrote Bhasker, who has worked with Ranaut in the “Tanu Weds Manu” film series and has been a critic of the actor.
Other celebrities too, were infuriated and filmmaker Onir said, “Will we now start celebrating a new Independence Day?”
Without naming the actor badminton player Jwala Gutta wrote, “What do you call a person who only spews venom when she/he opens their mouth!!! Just curious!!”
Lawyer Aman Wadud said, “Ground being prepared to attack the Constitution. Well-thought-out statement, don’t make the mistake to read this in isolation.”
Stand-up comic Kunal Kamra, an outspoken critic of the government wrote on Twitter, “Kangana is right India did get independence from common sense & rational thinking in 2014.”
Is Kangana Expressing Her Freedom of Speech?
Strangely ambiguous liberty democratic teams are rising up in righteous support for Kangana maintaining that she is exercising her freedom of speech. Somehow, those words sound very hollow at the present time because when freedom of speech reaches levels of lethality, perhaps one should know where to draw the line. She was not speaking in her drawing-room or to a batch of friends, but at a conclave, highlighted by Media with the Prime Minister, Home Minister and the President of India present.
Unfortunately, when a girl activist speaking up for farmers on Twitter gets booked under UAPA by the Government of India who gets her arrested, and many such are still in prison, not granted “freedom of speech”, but an actress with the potency to influence millions using her platform to maliciously spit out that the freedom of India in 1947 was nothing more than alms, and when certain BJP supporters cheer her on, as was heard in the conclave, then something is very wrong.
There is a difference between expressing your right to speech and desecrating the blood of martyrs by downplaying their sacrifice that enables citizens to sleep safely at night and empowers India to be a free nation under no other country’s yolk. It is an understatement to say, Kangana was expressing her “freedom of speech.” There are some lines of freedom of speech that even a child knows without being told should never be said.
Your rights should not allow you to transgress the spirit of the Consitution, the nation and the blood of soldiers.
Strangely, Kangana’s statement comes after she received the Padma Shri Award which was established in 1954 by the Congress Government, the very government she is making incendiary statements about.
Obviously, citizens would be outraged because she received the fourth-highest civilian award given to distinguished individuals who contributed outstandingly to the nation. A woman who is not a peacemaker but a divider, whether deliberately planted to polarize or just losing something of a mind, one could never know.
However, her getting the fourth-highest civilian award while desecrating the blood of martyrs by saying 1947 freedom was alms and not real freedom qualifies her unworthy of the award.
If Kangana keeps making harmful provoking statements and spreading poison, while she may ultimately drown in her shallow depths, she would have brought the millions under her fold into the deceptive grey light of a new radicalism that would be lethal and destructive. While we say, ignore her, because she is just a distraction, it is no small thing to ignore, one can rightfully call it treason.