Kangana Responds After BJP 'Disapproves' Her 'Farms Laws Should Be Brought Back' Remark

New Delhi: Politician-turned-actress Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday said that her views on farmers laws are personal and don't represent party's stand. She made the statement after a row erupted over her remarks ‘farm laws should be brought back’. She issued a clarification after the Bharatiya Janata Party said that Kangana is not authorised to make such a statement on behalf of the party.

Speaking on Kangana Ranaut 's remarks, BJP leader Gaurav Bhatia said, “On the social media platforms, BJP MP Kangana Ranaut 's statement on the farm bills that was withdrawn by central govt, is going viral.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 her. 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.”

After party's response, Kangana Ranaut sad, “Absolutely, my views on Farmers Laws are personal and they don’t represent party’s stand on those Bills. Thanks.”

Congress sharpens attack on BJP

The Congress cited BJP MP Kangana Ranaut 's purported remarks on farm laws to allege that the ruling party was making efforts to bring back the three laws that were repealed in 2021, and asserted that Haryana will give a befitting reply to it.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Congress shared on X an undated video of Ranaut in which she is purportedly saying in Hindi, “Farm laws that have been repealed should be brought back.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More than 750 farmers of the country were martyred, only then did the Modi government wake up and these black laws were withdrawn."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.

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 legislations came into force in June 2020 and were repealed in November 2021.

With inputs from PTI