BJP must be regretting the day it gave a ticket to Kangana Ranaut for an MP seat in Himachal from Mandi.
She has had a chequered history of speaking the darnedest thing all through her career. Yet, BJP did not think that that was a disqualification for a politician.
She has courted controversy all through her life and now these are getting magnified.
Recently she called for re-implementation of the the farm laws that Modi had had to roll back after a prolonged farmer agitation. She said that these laws were good and that the farmers should request Modi to bring them back!
This put the BJP leadership in a quandary. They had to cut a sorry figure, especially given that the party was facing strong headwinds in Haryana, a predominantly agrarian state whose farmers were part of the roll back agitation.
The party had to distance itself from her statements. Not only that they got her to issue a retraction!
In the video below, taken from her Instagram feed, it will become clear that she has been given a statement that she has to read out. The choice of words can’t be hers.
Generally, regret shows on the face.
And now, on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, she has courted controversy again. She issued a statement that a country does not have ‘fathers’ it has ‘Lals’ taking a swipe at Mahatama Gandhi and promoting Lal Bhadur Shastri, both Congress leaders.
She forgets that Lal Bahadur Shastri had set a high bench mark of probity in public life by resigning as the Railway Minister just because an accident had taken place leading to loss of life.
Leaders from her own party, like the bureaucrat turned Railway Minister, Ashwini Vaishnav, have shamelessly presided over dozens of accidents where hundreds have died.
The Prime Minister too has maintained pin drop silence on these accidents.
3,50,000 posts lie vacant in the Indian Railways. The organization is suffering government apathy. Maybe Kangana should speak on that, because it seems no one else in the party will speak on it.
