Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut on Monday unleashed a fresh war of words against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over the latter’s criticism of her at his Dussehra rally, by dubbing him as a “petty person” “worst product of nepotism”, accusing him of indulging in “open bullying” and saying that her home state of Himachal Pradesh was the land of “Gods” and “not Ganja fields”.
A day after Uddhav slammed her for much-discussed comment likening Mumbai to Pak-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and efforts to defame Mumbai police, Mumhai and Maharashtra, Kangana took to twitter to hit back at the chief minister in an unbecoming and nasty manner.
“You should be ashamed of yourself chief minister, being a public servant you are indulging in petty fights, using your power to insult, damage and humiliate people who don’t agree with you, you don’t deserve the chair you have acquired by playing dirty politics . SHAME,” Kangana said in one of the several tweets put out during the day.
Alluding to Uddhav’s comment that people without anything to fall back upon in their homes come to Mumbai to eke a living but speak indulge in acts of “namak haram” (betrayal) against Mumbai and Maharashtra, Kangana tweeted: “Raut called me Haramkhor now Uddhav called me namak haram, he is claiming I won’t get food in my state if Mumbai does not give me shelter, shame on you I am your son’s age this is how you speak to a self made single woman, Chief Minister you are the worse product of nepotism”.
“Look at the audacity of a working CM he is dividing the country who has made him Maharashtra ka thekedaar? He is just a public servant, there was someone else before him, soon he will be out, someone else will come to serve the state, why is he behaving like he owns Maharashtra?,” Kangana asked.
Among other things, Uddhav had hit out indirectly at Kangana, who had “maligned” Mumbai police, Maharashtra, the state government and Thackeray family over the investigations into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. “Even Aditya Thackeray was defamed... Those crying for justice for Bihar''s son indulged in character assassination of Maharashtra''s son,” the Sena chief said in his rally.
Responding to Kangana’s comment likening Mumbai to POK, Uddhav had sa8id: “If someone thinks or says that Mumbai is POK, it reflects the failure 0f Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
In reference to Uddhav’s comment that Ganja and charas comes from Himachal Pradesh, a state she comes from, Kangana tweeted: “Chief Minister you are a very petty person, Himachal is called Dev Bhumi it has the maximum number of temples also no zero crime rate, yes it has a very fertile land it grows apples, kiwis, pomegranate, strawberries one can grow anything here”.
“Chief Minister I am not drunk on my father’s power and wealth like you, if I wanted to be a nepotism product I could have stayed back in Himachal, I hail from a renowned family, I didn’t want to live off on their wealth and favours, some people have self respect and self worth,” Kangana tweeted.
“I am overwhelmed at this open bullying by a working CM so there is a typo in first tweet, it should be no crime in Himachal, yes clarifying again we don’t have poor or very rich people or any crimes in Himachal, it’s a spiritual place with very innocent and kind people,” she tweeted.
Monday was the second occasion when Kangana has joined the issue with Uddhav publicly. Earlier in September, she had referred to Uddhav as “tujhe” in one of the tweets and criticising him over the demolition of her home-cum-office at Bandra in north-west Mumbai.
It may be recalled that referring to Uddhav Thackeray as “tujhe”, Kangana had on September 9 launched an all out war against the Maha Vikas Aghadi government. “Uddhav Thackeray, tujhe kya lagta hai? (what do you think?)… colluded along with the film mafia, demolished my home and took revenge on me? My home was demolished today, your arrogance will crumble tomorrow,” Kangana had said in a video message on her arrival in Mumbai.
Like now, Kangana had come out with a series of tweets then. In some more tweets out during the day, Kangana had said: “Come Udhav Thakeray and Karan Johar Gang you broke my work place come now break my house then break my face and body, I want world to see clearly what you anyway do underhand, whether I live or die I will expose you regardless”.
“My office was suddenly declared illegal in the last 24 hours, they have destroyed everything inside including furniture and lights and now I am getting threats they will come to my house and break it as well,I am glad my judgement of the movie mafia’s favourite world’s best CM was right,” she had tweeted.
“There is no illegal construction in my house, also the government has banned any demolitions in Covid till September 30, Bullywood watch now this is what Fascism looks like,” Kangaa had tweeted.
