Kangana Ranaut’s bheekh” stirred up rage after she said at a conclave that India gained real freedom in 2014 and said that the independence of 1947 was mere alms or “bheekh”
Many People are Upset with Her”
Sources say that L. K. Advani is Upset with Kangana, This Still Has to be Verified, but A Video Was Released:
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, it was a refreshing change when L.K. Advani of BJP, 94 years old, spoke up and 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 all angry 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 criticise 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.
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.
Rita
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