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Gurugram: BJPs Mandi MP and actor Kangana Ranaut has landed the party in a soup in poll-bound Haryana, alleging in an interview that during the farmers agitation of 2020-2021, bodies were hanging and rapes were taking place and that there was a plan to create a Bangladesh-like situation in India...
As her remarks in the interview with Dainik Bhaskar triggered a political storm, the BJP wasted no time in initiating damage control and distanced itself from her views...
In a statement issued Monday by its media department in Delhi, the party, which is in power at the Centre and in Haryana, said Kanganas remarks in the context of the farmers agitation were not the opinion of the party and that it expresses disagreement with them...
Kangana Ranaut is neither permitted nor authorised to make statements on the partys policy issues Ranaut has been directed not to make any such statements in future, the BJP stated, adding that it was determined to follow its principle of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayas and social harmony...
The central BJPs intervention came after Haryana BJP leaders were learnt to have approached the party high command to apprise them about the damage her remarks against farmers could cause to the party in the October assembly election...
