Swara Bhasker weighed in on Kangana Ranaut getting slapped by a CISF constable in Chandigarh. The actress, who has worked with Kangana in Tanu Weds Manu, condemned the incident but called her out for allegedly justifying violence. Noting that she defended incidents such as Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Oscars, Swara asked what one can say about that.
“Anybody who is a reasonable person will say that whatever happened with Kangana was wrong,” Swara told Connect Cine. “There is nobody who will justify the violence or an act of assault which Kangana suffered. So yes, what happened with her was wrong and shouldn’t have happened. It is not right to assault anyone,” she added.
Swara went on to share, “Kangana just got slapped–and even that should not have happened–but at least she is alive, and has her security around. In this country, people have lost their lives, they’ve been lynched to death, shot dead in a train by a security personnel, in riots, security personnel have been recorded beating up people. Jo log ye saare acts ko justify kar rahe hai, woh phir aake Kangana ke case pe hume mat sikhao.”
Addressing Kangana’s old tweets and videos allegedly justifying violence, such as the Smitt slapgate, Swara said, “The problem with the Kangana case is that she herself has used her platform to justify violence. Her past tweets resurfaced, including the one for which she was banned from Twitter, where she has almost called for a genocide… Then she had also justified Will Smit slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, saying that if her mother or sister was abused, she would have also slapped someone. So now what do you say? What happened to her wasn’t right, and the one who did that has already been suspended and punished. So there, justice has been served, but those who have been killed in the last ten years in the country, the perpetrators are roaming free.”
For the unversed, Kangana was slapped by a CISF guard at the Chandigarh airport on Thursday afternoon. The actress-turned-politician was travelling to New Delhi days after her Lok Sabha elections win from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi constituency. The CISF woman constable, identified as Kulwinder Kaur, has been suspended. An FIR is being registered against the CISF constable at Chandigarh Airport based on a written complaint by CISF officials. A complaint has also been filed by CISF to the local police.
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