'Choose your heroes wisely': Kangana Ranaut
Known for the controversy actor Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday claimed Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh got no support from Mahatma Gandhi and went on to mock his mantra of ahimsa by saying that offering another cheek gets you "bheekh" not freedom.
In the "bheekh" comment, Ranaut said India's Independence as "bheekh", or alms, and declared that freedom came in 2014, when the (BJP) Narendra Modi government came to power.
In a new post on Instagram, Kangana this time targeted Mahatma Gandhi and said "choose your heroes wisely."
Kangana Ranaut is still in the audience eye for her comments, today she shared an old news clipping headlined "Gandhi, others had agreed to hand over Netaji".
The report claimed that Mahatma Gandhi, along with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, came to an agreement with a British judge that they will hand Bose if he would try to enter the country.
"Either you are a Gandhi fan or Nataji supporter You can't be both... Choose and decide," Kangana Ranaut. Her Twitter account has been suspended.
In another post, Kangana claimed, "Those who fought for the freedom were "handed over" to their masters by those who had no courage burning/ boiling hot blood to fight their oppressors but they were power hungry and cunning."
She then moved on to target Gandhi, even claiming that there was evidence suggesting he wanted Bhagat Singh to be hanged.
The Actor said, "Those are the ones who taught us, "If someone slaps you offer another cheek for one more slap'' and that is how you will get Aazadi. That's not how one gets Aazadi, one can only get bheekh like that. Choose your heros wisely(sic).
The actor said that it's now high time people should know their history and their heroes.
She further added, "Because just placing them all in one box of your memory and every year wishing them all birth anniversaries is not enough infact it's not just dumb but highly irresponsible and superficial."
Ranaut's "azaadi" statement at an event organised by a news channel last week came two days after she was presented the Padma Shri by President Ram Nath Kovind.
She has been under attack since with politicians from across the spectrum, historians, academics, fellow actors and others lashing out at her for views and many saying she should return her award.
On Monday, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar trashed Ranaut's statement, saying that such comments are only made for "publicity".
Nitish Kumar then said, "How can anyone publish this? We should not even take notice of it. Should we even pay attention to it? One should not give importance to such statements. In fact, it should be made fun of."
However, On Sunday she got support from veteran Marathi actor Vikram Gokhale.
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