Kangana Ranaut Reacts To Criticism Over Transgender Manjamma Jogati's Padma Shri Award

Kangana Ranaut has slammed people who criticising?the government for using the members of the LGBTQ community as pawns. This comes after transgender folk dancer Manjamma Jogati was honoured with the Padma Shri award recently.

Taking to her Instagram story, Kangana Ranaut wrote, "Nationalism isn't about gender or religion, it's about one's own integrity and character."

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Manjamma Jogati is the first trans-president of the Karnataka Janapada Academy, which is the state government's top institution for folk art forms.

Meanwhile,?Kangana Ranaut was also awarded Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian award, recently. Expressing gratitude, she wrote on Instagram, "Long ago when I started my career ….A question bothered me … I asked myself some want money, some want fans …. some seek fame and some just want attention …. What do I want ? Deep down I always knew as a girl child I wanted to earn respect and that is my treasure Thank you India for this gift".

After winning the award, Kangana also posted a short video?in which she said, "I am grateful. When I had started my career at a young age, it took me 8-10 years to taste success. But when I finally became successful, I did not enjoy that but launched myself into other issues. I shunned fairness products, items numbers, working in movies with popular male leads and with production houses. I made more enemies than I made money".

She added, "People often ask me what do I get by doing all this? Why do I do all this? This is not your job. So this award is my answer to them. Padma Shri ke roop mein jo mujhe sammaan mila hai ye bahut logon ke mooh band karega (This Padma Shri will silence a lot of people)".

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