Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut was slapped by CISF personnel at the Chandigarh airport on Thursday. As per the source, the newly elected MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi constituency was at the airport to travel to New Delhi, when the alleged incident took place.
Ranaut was slapped at security check for pushing the security personnel after she refused to put her phone in the tray during security check. Ranaut left for Delhi at 3 pm by a Vistara flight. The attack on Ranaut comes days after she won the Lok Sabha elections from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
The National Award-winning actor defeated Congress rival Vikramaditya Singh by 74,755 votes. Ranaut received 5,37,022 votes in her first Lok Sabha election as a political leader.
Ten candidates were in fray from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat which has 13, 77,173 voters. The vote turnout was 73.15 per cent.
“Heartfelt gratitude to all the people of Mandi for this love and trust… This victory belongs to all of you, this is the victory of your trust in Prime Minister Modi and BJP, this is the victory of Sanatan and in the honour of Mandi,” she had wrote on social media even before her victory was declared.
“Mandi ki sansad,” Ranaut had also captioned her post on X. Ranaut made her acting debut at the age of 17 with Anurag Basu’s 2006 film “Gangster”, earned accolades with her performances in films like ‘Queen’, ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’, ‘Manikarnika’, ‘Fashion’ and ‘Pangaa’ among others.
Ranaut has been an outspoken supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and backed his government on issues such as the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in 2019-20 and farmers’ protests and was also invited to the grand consecration ceremony of the idol of Ram Lalla at Ayodhya’s Ram temple.
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