Delhi Assembly Panel Summons Kangana Ranaut Calling Protesting Farmers 'Khalistani'

The Delhi Assembly's Committee on Peace and Harmony has summoned actress Kangana Ranaut over her social media post in which she referred to farmers protesting against three farm laws as "Khalistani terrorists".

"Pertinently, the committee has received numerous complaints eliciting inter alia, outrageously offensive and derogatory Instagram stories/posts allegedly published by yourself (Kangana Ranaut) over your official Instagarm Account against the 'Sikh Community' by blanketly labelling them as 'Khalistani Terrorists' through the purportedly deliberate references and imputations made in the said stories/posts, thus depicting the entire Sikh community in a very bad light, which as per the complaints, has the potential to endanger harmony as well as cause wounding humiliation to the entire Sikh community," the Committee in its summons said.

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Kangana has been asked to depose before the panel headed by AAP MLA Raghav Chadha on December 6.

The Padma-award-winning actress who has been a vocal supporter of the three, now-withdrawn farm laws had reacted sharply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement last week to repeal them.

"Khalistani terrorists may be arm twisting the government today... But let's not forget one woman... The only woman prime minister ne inn ko apni jooti ke neeche crush kiya tha (she had crushed them under her feet)..," she had said in a post.

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Raising objections to her comments, a delegation led by Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee president Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday met Additional Commissioner of Police, West Region, Mumbai to discuss legal action against Kangana.

They also demanded that Kangana "should be arrested for spewing venom against the farmers and Sikh community."

"The aforementioned post have purportedly caused immense agony, distress and gravely hurt the religious sentiments of the people from Sikh community, thus potentially leading to a situation of disruption of peace and harmony in the NCT of Delhi by allegedly disrespecting the entire community and purportedly instigating threats to the life and liberty of the people from the aforesaid community," it added.

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Kangana, who these days makes more headlines for her social media posts and comments than acting was banned by Twitter in May this year, after she, in a tweet, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show his ¡°Virat Roop¡± from the ¡°early 2000s¡±.

She was tweeting in the context of the post-poll violence in West Bengal.

Since then her social media activities have mostly been limited to Instagram.

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