Youth Congress, Manjinder Singh Sirsa file police complaints against Kangana Ranaut for social media posts

New Delhi, November 20

The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee president Manjinder Singh Sirsa filed two separate police complaints against actress Kangana Ranaut on Saturday for some of her recent posts on Instagram.

IYC national secretary Amreesh Ranjan Pandey and Ambuj Dixit, co-coordinator of the outfit’s legal cell, filed the complaint against Ranaut at the Parliament Street police station for allegedly making “seditious” remarks on social media.

“Kangana Ranaut is a renowned actress and has a huge fan following of more than 7.8 million (78 lakh) people on Instagram. Therefore, her intentional, irresponsible and seditious posts have the ability to excite hatred, contempt and disaffection towards the republic of India,” Youth Congress said in its complaint. 

The complaint has been filed for registering an FIR against the actress under sections 124A (sedition), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Pandey said.

Meanwhile, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa also slammed the actress over her alleged derogatory remarks targeting Sikhs and said the government should take action against her.

“She should either be put in mental hospital or in jail. We demand strict action from govt for her hateful content on Instagram,” Sirsa said in a tweet.

His second tweet said he’d filed a police complaint against the actress. 

“Filed a Police Complaint against KanganaRanaut for her disrespectful, contemptuous & insulting post on Instagram for calling whole Sikh Community as Khalistani terrorists & by saying that PM Indira Gandhi had crushed them as mosquitoes,” Sirsa said in the tweet.

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on Friday that the Centre will repeal three contentious farm laws, Ranaut posted Instagram stories, saying India is a “Jihadist Nation” and calling for dictatorship in the country, the complaint by the youth wing of the Congress said.

— Agencies