‘Madness or treason?’, Varun Gandhi lashes out at Kangana Ranaut over her ‘India got freedom in 2014’ comment

Actress Kangana Ranaut, at a recent event said that she has no intentions of joining politics but she is very aware of it and as an artiste and nationalist, she will speak about India’s freedom struggle. The video has gone viral where she said that what India achieved in 1947 was “alms”. She added, “That was not freedom but ‘bheekh’ (alms), and the freedom came in 2014″ (year when Narendra Modi came to power). Kangana said this at the event organised by television channel Times Now. This comment by Kangana has received flak on social media and BJP MP Varun Gandhi has also reacted to her comment that ‘India got freedom in 2014’. He is wondering if he should call Ranaut’s thought “madness” or “treason”

On Thursday, Gandhi tweeted, “Sometimes, they insult Mahatma Gandhi’s sacrifice and piety, then they often respect his killer, and now the disdain over sacrifices of Mangal Pandey, Rani Laxmibai, Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and lakhs of freedom fighters. Should I call such thinking madness or treason?”

Check out Varun Gandhi’s tweet.

कभी महात्मा गांधी जी के त्याग और तपस्या का अपमान, कभी उनके हत्यारे का सम्मान, और अब शहीद मंगल पाण्डेय से लेकर रानी लक्ष्मीबाई, भगत सिंह, चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद, नेताजी सुभाष चंद्र बोस और लाखों स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों की कुर्बानियों का तिरस्कार।

इस सोच को मैं पागलपन कहूँ या फिर देशद्रोह? pic.twitter.com/Gxb3xXMi2Z

— Varun Gandhi (@varungandhi80) November 11, 2021

At the event, Kangana spoke about Savarkar and the Congress’ allegation that he was not a patriot, Kangana said, “This is a very large subject. I have studied a lot and did a film on it as well. It is very clear that the British did not take India over by some democratic process, right? It was a forceful occupation of this nation. There were some battles here and there but in 1857, there was a decisive fight for freedom. What followed after that is the most unfortunate part of history. More unfortunate than what happened to Jews also. It was not printed in the media… whether the Jallianwala Bagh massacre or the Bengal famine. They went for Indians because they were able to curb the first fight…they left us literally starved.”

She added, “Secular is a no man’s land. What the British left behind in the name of Congress was the extension of the British.”

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