Anand The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday (Mar 25) slammed Congress national spokesperson Supriya Shrinate over a now-deleted Instagram post that featured a picture of actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut accompanied by an objectionable caption, demanding Shrinate’s immediate removal from the party.
Kangana Ranaut, who was handed over BJP’s ticket from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, took to her social media account and hit out at Shrinate stating that every woman in the world “deserves her dignity”.
“Dear Supriya ji In the last 20 years of my career as an artist I have played all kinds of women. From a naive girl in Queen to a seductive spy in Dhaakad, from a goddess in Manikarnika to a demon in Chandramukhi, from a prostitute in Rajjo to a revolutionary leader in Thalaivii,” Ranaut said in a post on X.
Dear Supriya ji
In the last 20 years of my career as an artist I have played all kinds of women. From a naive girl in Queen to a seductive spy in Dhaakad, from a goddess in Manikarnika to a demon in Chandramukhi, from a prostitute in Rajjo to a revolutionary leader in Thalaivii.… pic.twitter.com/GJbhJTQAzW— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) March 25, 2024
“We must free our daughters from the shackles of prejudices, we must rise above the curiosity about their body parts and above all we must refrain from using sex workers’ challenging lives or circumstances as some kind of abuse or slur… every woman deserves her dignity…,” she added.
BJP leaders Shehzad Poonawalla and Amit Malviya also lashed out at Shrinate over the post.
Malviya, the in-charge of BJP’s national information and technology department, said that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge should take strict action against Shrinate.
“Congress’s Supriya Shrinate makes an obnoxious comment on Kangana Ranaut in an Insta post. It is so disgusting that one can’t help, but ask – how does Congress collect so much filth in one place? If Kharge has any say in the party, he must sack her immediately or else resign,” Malviya, who is BJP IT cell head, posted on X.
Congress’s Supriya Shrinate makes an obnoxious comment on Kangana Ranaut in an Insta post. It is so disgusting that one can’t help, but ask – how does Congress collect so much filth in one place?
If CP @Kharge has any say in the party, he must sack her immediately or else… pic.twitter.com/gM032dYf4x
— Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार) (@amitmalviya) March 25, 2024
Poonawalla, dubbing the comments made by the Congress leader as despicable demanded her to be immediately sacked.
The comments by Supriya Shrinate on Kangana Team are despicable! Should be immediately sacked. Will Priyanka Gandhi speak up? Will Kharge ji sack her! Where is the “Hathras” lobby now? First they justified Sandeshkhali, then Lal Singh getting a ticket from Congress and now this,” he posted on X.
Shrinate triggered a massive uproar on the internet after an objectionable post from her social media account about Ranaut went viral.
She later denied posting the same stating that someone else who had an access to her account shared the “absolutely disgusting and objectionable post”.
Someone who had access to my meta accounts ( FB and Insta) posted an absolutely disgusting and objectionable post, which has been taken down.
Anyone who knows me will know I would never say that for a woman.
However a parody account that I have just discovered misusing my name…
— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 25, 2024
“Someone who had access to my meta accounts (FB and Insta) posted an absolutely disgusting and objectionable post, which has been taken down. Anyone who knows me will know I would never say that for a woman. However, a parody account that I have just discovered misusing my name is being run on Twitter which started the whole mischief, and is being reported,” she said.
(With inputs from media agencies)
