'If charges against Anurag Kashyap are true, serious action should be taken': Ravi Kishan

Actor-turned-politician BJP MP Ravi Kishan on Twitter wrote that amid allegations of sexual assault and abuse levelled by Bengali actor Payal Ghosh against rewned Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, he will raise issue of harassment of struggling female artists in Parliament during Question Hour. He claimed that entire incident that allegedly took place with Payal Ghosh will be brought up to ensure that such practices are stopped in film industry.

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Speaking to ANI, Ravi Kishan also claimed on Sunday that if charges levied against filmmaker Anurag Kashyap are found true, n serious actions are likely to be taken against him. He said that "all doors for probe are open for such cases" as he emphasised women empowerment in country. Furr, he went onto talk about "cleanliness drive" that has started in India ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took charge in 2014 and said that everything that maligns name of country will have to be cleaned, wher its cinema or an individual.

Earlier, reacting to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's allegations that he used to smoke drugs on his film sets, BJP MP Ravi Kishan on Saturday "humbly requested" director to think "a thousand times" before speaking. Gorakhpur MP said that he is "saddened" that Kashyap would t support him on issue of war of drugs.

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Payal Ghosh accuses Anurag Kashyap

Payal Ghosh had opened up about alleged incident in 2014-15 in an interview with news channel ABN Telugu. She claimed that director obscenely sought a sexual act from her, after asking her to come into ar room with him.  Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi actor also claimed that many or actresses obliged to his similar demands and that many were ready to ‘sleep with him just to share a frame with Ranbir Kapoor’, referring to casting of his film Bombay Velvet, that was yet to release n.

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Tagging PM Modi, she claimed Kashyap had ‘forced himself upon’ her. Seeking action against ‘demon behind creative talent’, she also sought security amid possible 'harm.'

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