Hitting out at actress Kangana Ranaut for her comments against yester-year actress Urmila Matondkar whom she called “a soft porn star”, Maharashtra Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant on Thursday charged that Kangana had shown her true colours by using unbearably filthy language against Urmila, an actress hailing from Maharashtra.
“With the support from the BJP, Kangana is constantly insulting Maharashtra but now she has crossed all limits. She has also shown her true colours by using unbearably
filthy language about actress Urmila Matondkar,” Sawant said.
“Maharashtra is proud of Urmila Matondkar. the BJP, which has repeatedly insulted Maharashtra through Kangana, should immediately apologise to the 13 crore people of the state,” the State Congress general secretary said.
“This is not just an insult to Urmila but an insult to all my sisters. Urmila comes from a middle class Marathi family and has always kept the culture of Maharashtra and the flag of Marathi high on the basis of her quality acting. Her insult is an insult of Maharashtra. The BJP is equally responsible for all this. The BJP, which lost power in Maharashtra, is taking revenge now,” Sawant said in a statement issued here.
“Kangana, who calls Mumbai Pak Occupied Kashmir, calls the Mumbai police a mafia and criticises Maharashtra and Marathi identity every day, is supported by the BJP. The BJP calls her Jhansi ki Rani, gives her Y-level security, and arranges her visit to the governor. The country has seen her holding a lotus in her hand while visiting Governor Koshyari,” Sawant said, adding that Kangana had gone on record saying she could anytime get a BJP ticket to contest the elections.
Urmila, it may be recalled, had joined the Congress and contested the Lok Sabha elections from Mumbai unsuccessfully against BJP's Raju Shetty in the 2019 polls. She quit the Congress after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Sawant’s comments should be in the context of the war of words witnessed between Urmila and Kangana. On her part, Urmila slammed Kangana for comment likening Mumbai to PoK and said she would "never tolerate any defamatory remark" about the city.
On Kangana’s comment about rampant drug use by Bollywood personalities, Urmila said that if Ms Ranaut had information about illegal drugs in Bollywood she should look to her state — Himachal Pradesh and would be better served by going to the
authorities rather than tweeting about it.
"Which girl from a civilised cultured house would use this kind of language? Like 'kya ukhaad loge', 'kiska baap ka kya hai', speaking about Jaya ji the way she did," Urmila said in a television interview.
Kangana hit back at Urmila by calling her “a soft porn star”. “She isn’t known for acting for sure and is known for doing soft porn. If she can get a ticket, why won’t I get a ticket?,” Kangana asked.
“The way she ( Urmila) was talking about me, completely teasing through the interview, pulling faces or just making a mockery out of my struggles, attacking me on the facts that I am trying to please BJP for a ticket.
One doesn’t have to be a genius to figure that for me it is not very difficult to get a ticket. I don’t have to play with my life or get my property ruined,” Kangana told a television channel.
