Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut was in for a shock on Friday when farmers stopped her car in Rupnagar district, when she was on her way to Chandigarh airport.

The protesting farmers, including women, claimed that they had allowed Kangana to go only after she tendered apology for her “regular comments against the farmers”, who have been protesting against the Centre’s three farm laws, and also against the Central Government’s decision to repeal the same.

Kangana, who was coming from her native place in Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), was stopped by the agitators, who were standing on the main road at Bunga Sahib near Kiratpur Sahib. The actor enjoys Y-category security.

She expressed an apology for her derogatory remarks against an elderly woman farmer last year. Notably, Kangana had tweeted a photo of an aged woman farmer, terming her a “woman available at Rs 100” for protests.

Ropar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Viveksheel Soni said the protesters allowed the vehicle to move after the police intervened to resolve the matter.

Kangana, who is active on social media, also shared her story on Instagram while sitting inside the car, alleging that a “mob of anti-social elements”, who are claiming themselves to be farmers, have gheraoed and hurled abuses on her while she was returning after her flight was cancelled.

Stating that how the attempt of “mob lynching” is being made openly in our country, Kangna claimed that the situation would have been different in case there was no security with her.

“Despite the presence of police, I am not allowed to move,” she said in the video.

“They are threatening to kill me and are abusing me. If the police were not here, there would have been lynching…Several people are doing politics in my name and today’s episode is the result of that,” she said.

Several video clips are also being circulated in the social media in which Kangana can be seen briefly interacting with the protesting women. In one of the video, the actor can b heard telling the women protestors that she was like their daughter.

In another video, several protesters are carrying flags approaching her vehicle. Later, she was seen talking with the women protesters, holding their hands, while they were asking Kangna to apologise for her remarks.

Kangana was seen clarifying that her remark was not against the woman farmer, but against the protesters at Shaheen Bagh. But the women protesters refused to believe her. One of the women even warned her that she must think before saying anything about the farmers’ protest.

 Later, the police diverted the actor’s car to Chandigarh via Morinda after it was learnt that a group of farmers were also waiting for her at the Toll Plaza near Ropar.