Congress drops Supriya Shrinate from lok sabha poll race amid row over remarks on Kangana Ranaut

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New delhi, March 28, 2024: The Congress party on Wednesday dropped its Lok Sabha polls candidate Supriya Shrinate amid the ongoing row over her remarks on actor Kangana Ranaut, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi.

Notably, Shrinate has been dropped as the candidate from the constituency she contested in 2019. The Congress leader contested the last Lok Sabha polls from Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh but lost to BJP’s Pankaj Chaudhary. The party replaced Shrinate with Virendra Chaudhary as its pick for the Lok Sabha seat.

The development came after Shrinate attracted a lot of criticism over her derogatory social media post on actor Kangana Ranaut, BJP’s candidate from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi. Featuring a photo of Ranaut, Shrinate in her objectionable Instagram post said, “Kya bhav chal raha hai Mandi main koi batayega? (Can someone say what is the going rate in Mandi?)”

Shrinate’s Clarification

Following the outrage, Shrinate promptly clarified and said that several people had access to her social media accounts, and one of them made the inappropriate post.

“As soon as I came to know, I deleted that post. Everyone who knows me, also knows very well that I can never make personal and indecent comments towards any woman. I wanted to know how this happened,” the Congress leader said.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission also issued a show-cause notice to Shrinate over her post.

Someone who had access to my meta accounts ( FB and Insta) posted an absolutely disgusting and objectionable post, which has been taken down.

Anyone who knows me will know I would never say that for a woman.

However a parody account that I have just discovered misusing my name…

— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 25, 2024

Responding to the Congress leader’s remarks, Ranaut took to social media and said, “Dear Supriya ji. In the last 20 years of my career as an artist, I have played all kinds of women. From a naive girl in Queen to a seductive spy in Dhaakad, from a goddess in Manikarnika to a demon in Chandramukhi, from a prostitute in Rajjo to a revolutionary leader in Thalaivii,” posted Ranaut on X, addressing the Congress spokesperson.

“We must free our daughters from the shackles of prejudices, we must rise above the curiosity about their body parts and above all we must refrain from using sex workers’ challenging lives or circumstances as some kind of abuse or slur… every woman deserves her dignity,” she added.


Courtesy: News18