New Delhi: The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) has sent a legal notice to actor Kangana Ranaut, in search of an unconditional apology for her “derogatory” tweets against farmers and activists involved in the protest against the Centre’s farm laws, the committee’s president mentioned on Friday.
The Bollywood star, who is recognized for her combative comments, was also asked to eliminate the certain tweets.
“We have sent a legal notice to @KanganaTeam for her derogatory tweet calling the aged mother of a farmer as a woman available for Rs 100. Her tweets portray farmers protest as anti-national. We demand an unconditional apology from her for her insensitive remarks on farmers protest,” Manjinder Singh Sirsa, president of DSGMC, mentioned in a tweet.
Earlier this week, Ranaut misidentified a lady farmer from Punjab as Bilkis Bano, the octogenarian who produced international headlines through the anti-CAA protests earlier this year in the Delhi neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh.
She shared a tweet alleging that the ‘Shaheen Bagh dadi’ also joined the farmers’ agitation more than the new agri laws at many border points of the national capital. She retweeted the post with photographs of two elderly females, such as Bilkis Bano, and wrote that the “same Dadi” who featured in Time Magazine was “available in 100 rupees”.
Ranaut was also embroiled in a bitter war of words with actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh more than the matter on Thursday.
Thousands of farmers have gathered at Delhi’s gateways to demand a repeal of the Centre’s 3 new farm laws. The protesting farmers mostly from Punjab and Haryana as nicely as Uttar Pradesh are worried the new laws will do away with the security cushion of a Minimum Support Price (MSP) and procurement technique, whilst rendering ineffective the mandi technique that guarantees earnings for many stakeholders in the farm sector.
The government has been in talks with farmer leaders to resolve the challenge.