Despite the controversy surrounding Kangana Ranaut’s remarks on India’s independence, veteran actor Vikram Gokhale in Pune reiterated the same stand while claiming India’s independence. Earlier, Kangana had announced at an event that India had achieved “real independence” in 2014, when the Narendra Modi-led government came to power, and declared the country’s independence in 1947 through “Bhik”, or begging. as was described.
Gokhale recently told reporters, “I agree with Ranaut’s statement. We were given freedom. When the freedom fighters were hanged (during the British Raj), many remained mute spectators. Many senior leaders were also included in these spectators who became mute spectators. They did not save the freedom fighters who were fighting against the British.”
what i agree with Kangana Ranaut Said. We got freedom in begging. It was given. Many freedom fighters were hanged and the bigwigs of the time did not try to save them. They remained mere spectators: Actor Vikram Gokhale in Pune pic.twitter.com/4gBSYwFjqf— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2021
After Kangana’s statements on India’s independence, she defended herself in a social media post and claimed that she would return her Padma Shri award if proven wrong. The actress made a controversial statement just a day after she was awarded the Padma Shri.
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Meanwhile, political leaders and people across the spectrum have slammed Kangana for her remarks. An effigy of the actor was torched by a group of relatives of freedom fighters in Indore. NSUI activists in Mumbai also protested outside the actor’s residence for his controversial statement.
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Ranaut has often been in the news for her headline-grabbing and controversial statements – be it her protracted fight with filmmaker Karan Johar over nepotism, horns with Diljit Dosanjh over farmers’ protests, his Twitter remarks against the ruling Shiv Sena government. To criticize or compare Mumbai to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
(with PTI inputs)
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