Kangana Ranaut Not Authorised To Speak on Party's Behalf: BJP on MP's 'Bring Back Farm Laws' Remark

New Delhi: The BJP once again distance itself from its MP Kangana Ranaut 's remark. 

The saffron party, on Tuesday, reacting on Ranaut's 'bring back farm laws' said the latter was not authorised to speak on the party's behalf.

BJP leader and spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia shared a video stating, "On the social media platforms, BJP MP Kangana Ranaut 's statement on the farm bills that was withdrawn by central govt, is going viral. I want to make it clear that this statement is a personal statement of hers. Kangana Ranaut is not authorised to make such a statement on behalf of BJP and it doesn't depict BJP 's view on the farm bills. We disapprove of this statement; we condemn it."

Ranaut, while addressing media persons, had said, "I believe that the farm laws were in favour of the farmers, and the laws should be brought back."

Citing Ranaut's purported remarks, Congress accused the BJP of wanting to bring back repealed farm laws. The Congress asserted that Haryana wouldgive a befitting reply to it. 

The Congress shared on X an undated video of Ranaut, in which she is purportedly saying in Hindi, "Farm laws that have been repealed should be brought back. I think this may get controversial. The laws in farmers' interest be brought back. Farmers should themselves demand this (to bring farm laws back) so that there is no hindrance to their prosperity. 

"Farmers are a pillar of strength in India's progress. Only in some states, they had objected to farm laws. I appeal with folded hands that farm laws should be brought back in the interest of farmers." 

In a post in Hindi along with the video, the Congress said, "The three black laws imposed on farmers should be brought back: BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has said this. More than 750 farmers of the country were martyred, only then did the Modi government wake up and these black laws were withdrawn." Now BJP MPs are planning to bring back these laws, the Congress alleged. 

"The Congress is with the farmers. These black laws will never return, no matter how hard Narendra Modi and his MPs try," the opposition party said on X. 

Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate also shared the video of Ranaut on X and said, "'All three farm laws should be brought back': BJP MP Kangana Ranaut . More than 750 farmers were martyred while protesting against the three black farmer laws. Efforts are being made to bring them back." 

"We will never let that happen. Haryana will answer first," she said in an apparent reference to the assembly polls in Haryana . 

Congress ' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera also shared the video on X and said it was the BJP 's "real thinking". 

"How many times will you deceive the farmers, you two-faced people?" Khera said in a post in Hindi. 

The three laws - Farmer's Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act; and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act - were repealed in November 2021. 

The farmers' protest started at the fag-end of November 2020 and ended after Parliament repealed the three laws. The legislation came into force in June 2020 and was repealed in November 2021. 

(with PTI inputs)