Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has once again sparked controversy with her thoughts on India’s battle for independence against British rule.
The ‘Panga’ actor said last week at a summit that India’s independence was a ‘bheekh (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.
Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday claimed Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh got no support from Mahatma Gandhi and went on to mock his mantra of ahimsa by saying that offering another cheek gets you “bheekh” not freedom.
In a series of posts on Instagram, Ms Ranaut this time targeted Mahatma Gandhi and said “choose your heroes wisely”.
On Tuesday, Kangana shared an old newspaper article and wrote, “Either you are a Gandhi fan or Netaji supporter. You can’t be both, choose and decide.” The newspaper had an old article from the 1940s with the headline, “Gandhi, others agreed to hand over Netaji.”
Kangana said that freedom fighters were ‘handed over’ to the British by those ‘who had no courage’ to fight oppression but were ‘power-hungry’. She took potshots at Mahatma Gandhi and said, “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 aazaadi. That’s not how one gets aazadi, one can only get bheekh like that. Choose your heroes wisely.”
