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oi-Ashish Rana
BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut has been quite active these days on social media targeting the Gen Z protest and the children who took the participation in the protest. Now she has responded to the controversy after a girl has recently made apology through a video after she was booked for allegedly abusing and objectional language against PM Narendra Modi.
Following an FIR identifying a protester as 25, the individual released an apology video claiming to be 15, which BJP MP Kangana Ranaut shared warning of negative influences, before PM Narendra Modi asked for forgiveness for the “misguided” youth involved in the protest.
The abuse video came from the 23 July Jantar Mantar protest in Delhi later she issued a public apology. With this the debate over the use of social media and its influence on children in public protests.
Kangana Ranaut Shares Girl’s Apology
Now Kangana also shared a screenshot from the video of girl’s apology on her Instagram stories and made the claim that the teenager was actually influenced by the people who were there at protest.
In her Instagram story post, Kangana wrote, “She is hardly 15, yeh khud bol rahi hai (she is herself admitting) she never posted anything against Modi ji in her whole life but that day her friends took her there and people instigated her to abuse, aao apne bachchon ko evil feminazi and demonic leftists se bachao (please save your children from evil feminazi and demonic leftists), we need to protect our children from them.”
She also give it a religious angle by saying how some groups were less visible in the protest and asked the society to look at this seriously. Kangana added, “Khud notice karo ek bhi scarf/burkha wali ne bhonda pradarshan nahi kiya (Notice yourself that no one wearing scarf/burkha were at the protests) but our daughters are easily manipulated aisa kyu (why is that)? We as a community are failing somewhere. We must introspect. We must protect our daughters.”
Girl Claims She Is 15 in Apology Video
The FIR filed against the girl who made the abusive video against PM Modi has identified her age as 25-year-old woman. However, the apology video she shared the online differs the claim. She says that she is “just 15 years old”, however the authenticity of the video is not confirmed.
In the video where the girl is asking for apology, she says, “I came under the influence of some people at the protest and said a lot of bad things against the Prime Minister. I am only 15 years old. Whatever I did was not worthy of forgiveness. I have said a lot of bad things. I apologise to the entire country. I am so ashamed. I can’t even look at myself. Please forgive me.”
However now the age difference is going to lead the investigation as FIR and the video claimed, to know the exact the age.
PM Modi Appeals for Forgiveness
The apology came after hours PM Narendra Modi himself shared a video on Instagram asked to not give punishment to the people who abused him and raised abusive slogans in the protest.
“These are misguided children, and showing them the way is our duty; we will not be able to change circumstances by punishing them, making them run around the courts, or harassing them in society,” the Prime Minister said.
He also asked the students to learn from their mistakes and look for the positive side and contribution for India’s future. He said, “Children, come, let us move forward together for the country. Let us learn something new, let us learn even from mistakes… I live for you, I toil for your bright future, so come, let us together take the country forward.”
