New Delhi, December 4
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) sent a legal notice to actor Kangana Ranaut, asking for an unconditional apology for his “disparaging” tweets against farmers and activists involved in the protest against the Center’s agricultural laws, said on Friday the committee chair.
The Bollywood star, who is known for her combative comments, was also asked to delete the tweets in particular.
“We have sent legal notice to @KanganaTeam for her derogatory tweet calling an elderly farmer’s mother as a woman available for 100 rupees. Her tweets portray the farmers’ protest as anti-national. We demand an unconditional apology from her for her insensitive comments. . on the farmers’ protest, “Manjinder Singh Sirsa, president of DSGMC, said in a tweet.
Earlier this week, Ranaut mistakenly identified a Punjabi farmer as Bilkis Bano, the octogenarian who made international headlines during protests against the CAA earlier this year in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh neighborhood.
She shared a tweet claiming that the ‘Shaheen Bagh dadi’ also joined the agitation of farmers over new farm laws at various border points in the national capital.
She retweeted the post with photos of two older women, including Bilkis Bano, and wrote that the “same Dadi” who appeared in Time magazine was “available for 100 rupees.”
Ranaut was also embroiled in a bitter war of words with actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh over the matter on Thursday.
Thousands of farmers have gathered at Delhi’s front gates to demand the repeal of the Center’s three new agricultural laws. Protesting farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana as well as Uttar Pradesh, are concerned that the new laws will remove the safety cushion of the minimum subsistence price and the procurement system, while making the mandi system that guarantees ineffective. income for various stakeholders in the agricultural sector. .
The government has been in talks with peasant leaders to solve the problem. PTI
