New Delhi: BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut, in a series of posts on social media, lashed out at GenZ, particularly “young Hindu women,” over the student protests organised under the banner of the Cockroach Janta Party.
In the last 24 hours, Ranaut has posted three stories on Instagram, flaying the videos emerging from the CJP-led student protests and calling them “puke-inducing.”
In the last two weeks, thousands of students gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar over alleged paper leaks and irregularities in the NEET-UG examination. The CJP withdrew the protest on Saturday, July 25 after the government accepted its demands and Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as Union education minister.
Days later, in an Instagram story, Ranaut addressed “protesters who are getting beaten and abused on the roads by common people because of their filthy and abusive reels,” and went on to explain the cause and effect of their actions. She said, “If you damage public property, the public will damage you.”
In another Instagram story, which she posted late evening on Monday, Ranaut lambasted the reels from CJP-led protests and said, “Never in my life I have seen so much ugliness in one place. The BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh also had an issue with the language that young people have apparently used.
“Everything in each and every frame so jarring and so crass,” she wrote, before asking, “Who is birthing and raising them?”
She also attacked the Cockroach Janta Party’s name and the cockroach imagery used by the protesters. “You call yourself cockroaches and look/behave like them as well,” she wrote, accusing the students of subjecting others to their “filth, garbage and ugliness.”
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In an Instagram story posted on Monday, Ranaut had targeted “young Hindu women” and referred to them as “generation gutter.” She said some wanted to imitate independent career women without earning their freedom or accepting accountability.
Calling them “so-called westernised Indian women” she said that they were neither good at studies not could they be homemakers because they were “so ugly and corrupt.”
“But they proudly flaunt their freedom to have drugs, drinks or endless body counts and shamelessly live off their parents’ earnings,” Ranaut wrote.
Opposition leaders criticised Ranaut’s remarks. Congress leader Bhai Jagtap asked why, as a woman, she felt no remorse over students being “harassed, beaten and mistreated” during the protest.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan called her remarks “highly condemnable” and said she should apologise to Gen Z. He also asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take note of the language used by a BJP MP.
Ranaut has previously drawn attention for sweeping remarks about women and their professions. In June, while promoting Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata, in which she plays a nurse, she called nursing the “most sexualised profession”. She also said nurses were underpaid and overworked and argued that their uniforms should be “Indianised” because they retained a British colonial influence.
(Edited by Aakriti Handa)