On Wednesday, actor-politician Kangana Ranaut sparked a fresh controversy with a social media post regarding Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
She honoured Shastri on his 120th birth anniversary in a post that seemed to diminish Gandhi's role as the Father of the Nation, despite previously receiving criticism for her remarks on the farmers' protests.
"Desh ke pita nahi, desh ke to lal hote hai. Dhanye hai Bharat ma ke ye lal ('The country does not have fathers; it has sons. Blessed are these sons of Mother India)" Ranaut wrote on her Instagram Stories.
In a subsequent social media update, the actor acknowledged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for continuing Gandhi's commitment to cleanliness in the nation.
The social media post about Shastri and Gandhi has sparked another controversy for the BJP MP from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, as Congress leader Supriya Shrinate condemned Ranaut for her disrespectful comment about Gandhi.
"BJP MP Kangana made this lewd jibe on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. Godse worshippers draw distinctions between Bapu and Shastri ji. Will Narendra Modi wholeheartedly forgive his party's new Godse devotee? There is the Father of the Nation, there are sons, and there are martyrs. Everyone deserves respect," Shrinate said in a post on X.
In March, Shrinate herself had been embroiled in controversy before the Lok Sabha elections over an objectionable post regarding the actor.
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