Kangana Ranaut: Rubbishing History Is More Than Being Just Plain Silly
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By Sunil Garodia
First publised on 2021-11-11 14:44:26
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Kangana Ranaut has become such a sycophant of the ruling dispensation that now she has lost her marbles. In one statement, she has rubbished the sacrifices and struggles of all freedom fighters and political acumen of all parties and groups of that time by saying that what India got in 1947 was bheekh (handout) and the country attained real freedom in 2014 (the year Narendra Modi became Prime Minister for the first time). BJP MP Varun Gandhi is right in asking whether this is "madness" on her part or should it be treated as "treason".
In trying to get into the good books of Prime Minister Modi, Kangana has this time tried to be more loyal than the king. While the subject of her fawning admiration does not tire of praising Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (and building a 597 feet statue of the leader at the Sardar Sarovar dam) and other freedom fighters (if the name is not Nehru), Kangana has now said that what they got for all their efforts was bheekh from the British. But in trying to rubbish them she has only ended up showing how petty she is and how little she understands about India, its leaders and its people.
There is nothing bad in admiring a leader. There is also nothing bad in admiring him to the point of becoming a sycophant. In fact, Indian politicians always carry the baggage of chamchas with them. Obviously, a chamcha will always think the world of his leader. There is nothing wrong with that too. But when this hero-worship turns into hatred for others, especially those who gave their entire lives to fight for the country's freedom, then it becomes treason.
In the same Times Now Summit where Kangana made her intemperate (and one is using a mild word) remarks, the Union law minister Kiren Rijiju defended the sedition law and said it was necessary to prevent people from using freedom of expression to strike at India's unity and integrity. If ever a case was fit to be tried under the sedition laws, it is Kangana Ranaut's remark that the country's freedom was given by the British as bheekh. Will the NDA government try her?
The flower in poet Makhanlal Chaturvedi's poem Pushpa Ki Abhilasha had made an earnest appeal to the gardener to pluck it and throw it on the path which was used by freedom fighters on their journey to lay their lives for the country after rejecting to be used for other decorative purposes. It is good Ranaut was not born as a gardener in that era. Otherwise, she would have told the flower that the freedom fighters were going to beg to the British and they would get bheekh in return. How crass can one get?
