Kangana Ranaut fires blistering response to CM Uddhav's 'Ganja fields in your state' barb

While Sanjay Raut had been leading verbal attacks on Kangana Ranaut in past weeks, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray broke his silence on actor’s controversial statements. As Shiv Sena chief addressed his followers during party's annual Dussehra rally, even Kangana Ranaut found a mention amid statements on former ally Bharatiya Janata Party. On actor’s allegations about drug consumption in Bollywood, leader stated that ‘ganja fields were’ in her state, prompting a strong response from Kangana.

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Kangana Ranaut hits back at Uddhav Thackeray 

During his Dussehra address, Uddhav Thackeray hit out at ‘m’ for ‘Mumbai is PoK’ analogy and painting an im about re being ‘drug addicts everywhere’ in city. He added that people of Maharashtra ‘grew tulsi t ganja’ and said, ‘Ganja fields are in your state.’

Responding to a news report on it, Kangana called CM a ‘petty person’ indulging in 'petty fights' being a public servant. She wrote, ‘Himachal is called Dev Bhumi’ as she highlighted ‘maximum number of temples’, ‘zero crime rate’ and threw light on its’ very fertile land’ for production of apples, kiwis, pomegranate, strawberries.

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Kangana continued that Thackeray had ‘vengeful, myopic and ill-informed’ views about Himachal Pradesh. She tweeted that state had been ‘abode of Lord Shiva and Maa Parvati’ and that ‘many great saints like Markandya and Manu Rishi, Pandavas spent large part of ir exile’ in place. 

three-time National Award winner hit out at Thackeray by writing, ‘you should ashamed of yourself’ and for ‘using your power to insult, dam and humiliate people who don’t agree with you’. Calling it a ‘shame’, she also wrote, ‘ You don’t deserve chair you have acquired by playing dirty politics.’

Manali resident continued that state did t have ‘poor or very rich people’ and that it was a ‘spiritual place with very incent and kind people’.

She added that both Himachal and Mumbai were her homes, as she highlighted its beauty and opportunities respectively.  Kangana also wrote, “Don’t you dare to snatch our democratic rights and divide us, your filthy speeches are a vulgar display of your incompetence.”

She also wrote that Thackeray was ‘behaving like he owns Maharashtra’ and having 'audacity' of ‘dividing country’.

Kangana’s face-off with Shiv Sena

Kangana had been relentlessly attacking Mumbai Police over investigation in Sushant Singh Rajput case, followed by allegations of drug consumption in film industry. Sena leader Raut’s threat at her to t return to Mumbai, where she worked, led to a massive controversy. actor had n made ‘Mumbai is Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’ reference, after which Raut’s cuss word at her also became a talking point. 

Days later, Shiv Sena-led municipal body BMC demolished a portion of Kangana’s office in Bandra on September 9, citing ‘illegal alterations’, moments before she landed in Mumbai. actor has moved Bombay High Court, seeking dams of Rs 2 crore, a matter which court has reserved its verdict on.

Kangana had also hit out at Uddhav Thackeray that ‘y were trying to put her in jail’ after she and her sister-manr Rangoli Chandel was booked for ‘communal’ comments' including charges of sedition, among ors recently. This is apart from or members of Shiv Sena and Mumbai Police filing police complaints and legal tices against her. She also slammed government for recent witch-hunt on Republic Media Network. 

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