‘Insult to freedom fighters’: Delhi BJP spokesperson demands action against Kangana Ranaut for ‘freedom only in 2014’ comment

Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor has termed Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut’s statement that what India achieved in 1947 was alms (bheek) but not freedom as an insult to the freedom fighters’ sacrifices and demanded action against her.

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

Kapoor tweeted, “Being the son of a freedom fighter and coming from the family of freedom fighters, Kangna 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,” he tweeted in Hindi.