New Delhi: Actor Kangana Ranaut has been summoned by the Delhi assembly’s panel on peace and harmony over her remarks against Sikhs, sources have said. Kangana has been told to appear before the committee headed by Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha on December 6.
Kangana has been summoned over her “derogatory remarks on Sikhs”.
“The committee has received numerous complaints among others, outrageously offensive and derogatory Instagram stories/posts allegedly published by yourself on 20.11.2021 over your official Instagram account…” the committee said in a notice signed by its deputy secretary to Kangana.
The summons document said Kangana “blanketly labeling (Sikhs) as Khalistani terrorists… has the potential to engender disharmony as well as cause wounding humiliation to the entire Sikh community.”
The actor also faces a FIR, in Mumbai filed by Sikhs for using derogatory language against them on social media.
The police complaint filed by a Mumbai businessman, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee leaders and the Shiromani Akali Dal alleged that Kangana”intentionally and deliberately” portrayed the year-long protest by farmers against three new farm laws as a “Khalistani” movement and called them “Khalistani terrorists”.
The poem was posted on Kangana’s Facebook post which read that, Khalistani terrorist may be twisting the hands of the government today, but do not forget the woman. The first only woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who crushed them under her shoes. She no matter how much trouble she had cause to the country she crushed them like mosquitoes at the cost of her life but did not allow the country to break into pieces even after a decade of her death even now people tremble hearing her name. Need a Guru like her.
Her post was seen as alluding to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in October 1984. Nearly 3,000 were killed in the riots that broke out afterwards, with groups of armed men targeting Sikhs across Delhi, and attacking and vandalising homes, shops and gurdwaras.
The actor has been a big critic of the protest by farmers, especially from Haryana and Punjab, against the three farm laws that the centre has now agreed to cancel.
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