Kangana Ranaut 'flattered' at Congress' effigy burning; questions 'Pappu with Champu army'

Reacting to Punjab Congress workers burning her effigies on Tuesday, actor Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday asked whether she is "some minister or a great opposition leader?" Taking to Twitter, the actor said that first Congress in Maharashtra "threatened" her and beat her posters with chappals and now Congress in Punjab "burning my effigies, seems like a clear case of mistaken identity."

'This is rather flattering'

The Punjab Congress burnt the effigies of Kangana Ranaut at Amritsar over her tweet calling farmers protesting the farm bills passed by the government as “terrorists”, and criticized her for the same. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated farmers, stating that the passing of the farm bills in the Parliament was a "watershed moment in the history of Indian agriculture". Amid the protests from the Opposition and farmers in several parts of the country, the Rajya Sabha passed the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020. 

'I will apologize and leave Twitter forever'

In a series of tweets, Prime Minister said that the passage of bills will liberate farmers from decades of various constraints and bullying by middlemen. Ranaut retweeted one of PM’s tweets and described the protesters as “the same terrorists who indulged in bloodshed even though no countryman lost citizenship due to CAA”.

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The actor on Monday clarified that she did not call farmers terrorists and dared anybody to prove it. She said, "Like Lord Krishna has Narayani Army, similarly Pappu has his Champu army that knows only to fight on the basis of rumours. This is my original tweet, if somebody can prove that I called farmers terrorists then I will apologize and leave Twitter forever.”

Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday attacked the BJP over "it's silence" on Kangana's remarks. Shiv Sena, in an editorial in Saamana, said that the political party that “glided like snakes” to what the actress said are now silent on the “insult” to farmers.  Without naming Ranaut, the editorial said, “Farmers fighting for their rights are ‘terrorists’, if anyone is saying this then it is dishonesty. But the political parties that glide like a snake when an actress speaks are now silent on the insult of the farmers.”

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