The public dispute between actor Kangana Ranaut and Shiv Sena continued on Saturday with Sena leader Sanjay Raut advising him to use his own social media identifier and not to pass it through a political party’s IT cell.
Raut said: “You need to use your own Twitter instead of allowing the TI cell of a political party to do so.” The Shiv Sena and Congress have been alleging that BJP’s TI cell is behind Ranaut’s tweets.
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Meanwhile, Sena legislator Pratap Sarnaik maintained his position that Ranaut would be slapped by female workers in his party when she arrived in Mumbai and he was willing to go to jail for it.
The president of the National Commission for Women (NCW), Rekha Sharma, had demanded on Friday the arrest of Sarnaik for threatening Ranaut.
The legislator said that Ranaut had insulted Maharashtra with his comments about PoK. “This issue concerns the pride of Maharashtra and there will be no compromise on this front. Ranaut needs to apologize for his PoK comments or he will face the music of our women’s wing, ”he said.
On Saturday, Sena workers held demonstrations across the state and key leaders continued their tirade against Ranaut.
The problem had started on Thursday when Ranaut tweeted: “The leader of Sanjay Raut Shiv Sena has openly threatened me and asked me not to return to Mumbai, after the Aazadi graffiti on the streets of Mumbai and now the open threats, for does Mumbai feel like occupied Pakistan Kashmir? “
This was in reaction to the article by Raut in Saamna, Shiv Sena’s spokesman, where he asked Ranaut not to return while criticizing the Mumbai police.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has branded the entire controversy as diversionary tactics adopted by Shiv Sena to cover up his government’s failure to handle the Covid-19 pandemic. “She (Kangana) is just hungry for publicity and I can’t understand why the Sena attaches such importance to it. This seems to us as a tactic to divert attention from their mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, ”said MNS leader Sandeep Deshpande.
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