Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut left her hometown of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh for Chandigarh by road early Wednesday to catch a flight to Mumbai after testing negative for Covid-19 late Tuesday.
An inconclusive report from Covid-19 on Tuesday threatened to disrupt her travel plans to Mumbai amid her ongoing war of words with Shiv Sena’s deputy Sanjay Raut over her comments that she does not feel safe in Mumbai afterward. of the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
Last week, Kangana had taken to Twitter to state: “Sanjay Raut, leader of Shiv Sena, has openly threatened me and asked me not to return to Mumbai. After Aazadi graffiti on the streets of Mumbai and now open threats, why does Mumbai feel like Pakistan is occupying Kashmir?
The actor received security from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Y-plus on the recommendation of Himachal Pradesh Police Chief Sanjay Kundu after he complained of a threat to his life.
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He traveled from his home on the outskirts of the resort town of Manali to his home village of Bhambla in the Mandi district on Tuesday. A medical team in Manali had taken swab samples from Kangana and her younger sister, Rangoli Chandel, for testing for Covid-19, as they had plans to travel to Mumbai. However, the report was not conclusive.
Later, a team from the Lal Bahadur Shastri College of Medicine in Mandi took fresh samples from the sisters. Both tested negative in the declared results around midnight and departed for Chandigarh from Mandi district by road to board a flight to Mumbai. It is a five hour drive from Mandi to Chandigarh.
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Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, who described her as a daughter from Himachal Pradesh, spoke with Kangana by phone on Tuesday and confirmed that she would be traveling on September 9.
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