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Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut (Image: PTI)
Ranaut calls former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a “dictator” and accuses her son Sanjay Gandhi of forcing vasectomy in India
Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate for Lok Sabha seat Kangana Ranaut on Saturday attacked the Congress, calling former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s father Motilal Nehru the “Ambani” of his time. Ni”, but no one knows where his wealth comes from.
Reacting to her remarks, the Congress filed a complaint with the Election Commission (EC), accusing her of using “derogatory and insulting” remarks against senior party leaders and trying to associate “freedom fighter Motilal Nehru” with a top Businessmen compare countries”.
“Motilal Nehru was the father of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who was the Ambani of the time, but no one knew where his wealth and property came from. He was associated with the British Closely connected, where he got his wealth remains a secret,” she said while addressing a rally in Himachal Pradesh’s Sakaghat Assembly district.
The constituency, which falls under the Mandi Assembly constituency, will go to polls on June 1 along with three other seats in the state – Kangra, Hamirpur and Shimla.
Actor Ranaut also said that “no one knows how Jawaharlal Nehru became prime minister because of the vote for (former deputy prime minister) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel”. Since then, she said, “the ‘deemak’ (termites) of this dynastic rule has infected the entire country.”
“On one hand, we have the ‘tapasvion ke sarkar’ (BJP government) and on the other hand, we have the ‘bhoogion ke sarkar’ (Congress party), which consists of a small group of ‘shehzadas’, one of whom is in Delhi and the other One is here (in Himachal Pradesh),” she said, apparently referring to Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Virkamadia Singh. Virkamaditya Singh is the Himachal Pradesh Public Works Minister and a scion of the former royal family of Rampur. The son of the late six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh and state Congress chief Pratibha Singh was pitted against Ranaut by the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls.
“Kangana Ranaut, while addressing a public meeting at Sakaghat in Mandi, used derogatory and insulting words against senior Congress leaders,” the Congress party said in its complaint to the EC. The statement read, “She tried to compare freedom fighter Motilal Nehru with one of the top businessmen of the country. “
The Congress complaint said Ranaut accused Sanjay Gandhi of “condoning forced vasectomy in India”.
The complaint to the EC was filed by Dhanajay Sharma and Dhiraj Thakur, state convener of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Law Department.
The party said the actions breached the Model Code of Conduct and were personal attacks on the deceased.
She also used derogatory language against Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and even called Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh a “cartoon character” and sought to restrain Ranaut from participating in any further elections, the complaint said. Activity.
Addressing a public meeting at the Sunder Nagar rally segment on Friday, Ranaut termed the Congress “a disease left by the British, which is eating the country like a ‘Dimak'”.
She once said, “There were historic changes in 2014, the dismissal of Congress, what I call the British ‘Demac’, and it engulfed the country.”
Ranaut called former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a “dictator” and accused her son Sanjay Gandhi of enforcing vasectomy in India.
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(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a Yonhap news agency feed – PTI)
