Kangana Ranaut and 60 celebs hit back at stars who wrote an open letter to PM Modi!

India has been facing a mob-lynching crisis for a long time now. On Wednesday, 49 eminent personalities, artists and intellectuals including Aparna Sen, Mani Ratnam, Shyam Benegal, Ketan Mehta, Gautam Ghose; actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Revathy Asha; author Amit Chaudhuri; singer Shubha Mudgal, wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi expressing their concerns over the same. The open letter stated that ‘the lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately.’

The letter stated that ‘Jai Shri Ram’ has been reduced to a war cry, referring to recent instances in which those being lynched have allegedly been forced to chant the slogan. The letter also said that there is no democracy without disagreement and people should not be branded as an ‘anti-national’ or ‘urban Naxal’ and incarcerated because of it.

Now two days later, a counter reply to that open letter to PM Modi has been filed by 60 prominent celebrities including Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, lyricist Prasoon Joshi, classical dancer and MP Sonal Mansingh, instrumentalist Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, filmmakers Madhur Bhandarkar and Vivek Agnihotri. 

Their letter questions ‘selective outrage and false narratives’. It asks why do the celebrities remain silent when tribals and marginalized are targeted by Maoists (A communist party of India which aims to overthrow the government of India through people's war). 

Check out the open letter here:

After writing the counter letter, Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut opened up and talked about the people misusing their position to create false narratives. According to a news agency Asian News International (ANI), Kangana stated, 

Some people are misusing their position to generate false narrative that, under this government, things is going wrong, whereas for the first time things are going in the right direction. We are a part of a major shift. Things are changing for the betterment of the nation and few people are rattled by this. Common people have chosen their leaders. Ones who disregard people will are the ones who have no respect or consideration for democracy.

- Kangana Ranaut

On the work front, Kangana will be seen in the recently released JudgeMentall Hai Kya alongside Rajkummar Rao. 

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Credits: Hindustan Times