New Delhi (TIP)- Days after she made objectionable remarks against protesting farmers, actor Kangana Ranaut, the Lok Sabha MP from Mandi, on Thursday, August 29, met BJP president JP Nadda, who asked her to honour the party discipline and refrain from speaking out of line on sensitive policy matters.
The BJP reined in the actor a little more today after earlier reprimanding her through a rare letter in which the party dissociated itself from the MP’s remarks and instructed her to avoid commenting on policy matters such as farmers’ issues.
“The BJP’s approach is sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas and that is our guiding principle. Anything stated to the contrary is not our view,” said a BJP source on Kangana’s statements against farmers — a development having the potential to harm the party’s prospects in poll-bound Haryana. Nadda met Kangana minutes before the Haryana core committee of the BJP assembled at his residence to draft panels of candidates for the state elections.
Later during the day, these panels were presented for final approval to the BJP central election committee, which met under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The CEC meeting was attended by Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and the top Haryana BJP brass — CM Nayab Saini, former CM ML Khattar, Union Minister Rao Inderjit, former Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij, Haryana BJP election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan and Haryana BJP in-charge Satish Poonia among others.
Earlier at his meeting with Kangana, Nadda is learnt to have reminded her about Modi’s serial admonitions to MPs on the needlessness of irrelevant public utterances. It is further learnt that Kangana was asked not to speak on political and policy matters while promoting her work.
Kangana has been on a promotion spree for her film “Emergency” in which she plays late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
SAD (Amritsar) president and former MP Simranjit Singh Mann on Thursday triggered outrage among women organisations by making “derogatory remarks” in Karnal against BJP MP Kangana Ranaut.
Hours after meeting Nadda, Kangana reposted a tweet by one Nilesh Waghela who had asked if what she stated about farmers’ protests was wrong. He had also posted news clippings from the days of the stir.