Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on June 10 criticised the slapping of actress-politician Kangana Ranaut but was also critical of the actress’ sweeping generalisation of the state being full of terrorists.
Mann said, the act of CISF constable Kulwinder Kaur slapping Kangana at the Chandigarh airport on June 6 was inappropriate. Acknowledging the “simmering anger” in Kaur’s action due to Kangana’s “venomous statement” (about women seen in the farmers’ protest on the Delhi border) in the past, he stressed that such behaviour was unacceptable. “There was anger… She (Kangana) has made remarks in the past and somewhere, there was anger in the heart of that girl (constable). It should not have happened. But in reply to that, as a public figure, either as a film star or as an elected MP, to say that the entire Punjab is (full of) terrorists is wrong. It is the same Punjab that got us independence and feeds the country,” Mann concluded.