Delhi BJP leader demands action against Kangana Ranaut for 'insult to freedom fighters'

Actor Kangana Ranaut's comments on India's freedom have riled up BJP leaders as well. After party MP Varun Gandhi, BJP Delhi spokeperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor has also slammed the actor's comment and demanded action against her.

Kapoor termed Ranaut’s statement that what India achieved in 1947 was "bheek but not freedom" as an insult to the freedom fighters’ sacrifices.

Ranaut’s video from Times Now summit went viral on social media with several people strongly criticising what the actor had said. In the clip, she said that what India got in 1947 was “bheek”. “That was not freedom but ‘bheekh’ (alms), and the freedom came in 2014,” she added, supposedly referring to Narendra Modi-led government coming to power.

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Kapoor tweeted: “Being the son of a freedom fighter and coming from the family of freedom fighters, Kangana Ranaut statement that India’s independence was given in bheek, I find it the biggest misuse of freedom (of speech) and an insult to the sacrifice of freedom fighters".