Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut was slapped by a woman personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Chandigarh Airport on Thursday. The MP-elect from Mandi was slapped during a security check after she refused to put her phone in the tray and pushed the security personnel. Ranaut left for Delhi at 3 PM on a Vistara flight.
In a video message, Ranaut narrated the incident at Chandigarh Airport. "I am getting a lot of phone calls from the media as well as my well-wishers. First of all, I am safe, I am perfectly fine. The incident that happened today at Chandigarh airport was during the security check. As soon as I came out after the security check, the lady in the second cabin, a CISF security staff came from the side, hit me on my face, and started abusing me."
"When I asked her why she did so, she said that she supports farmers' protest. I am safe but I am concerned about the terrorism and extremism that is increasing in Punjab," she said.
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As per reports, the woman who slapped Ranaut hails from Sultanpur in Punjab's Kapurthala and is the sister of farmer leader Sher Singh Malhiwal. The CISF has suspended the woman constable and complained to her at the local police station for an FIR in connection with slapping the BJP leader and actor.
The attack on Ranaut came 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, according to the Election Commission website. Ranaut received 5,37,022 votes in her first Lok Sabha elections. Ten candidates contested from the Mandi seat, which has 13,77,173 voters. The voter turnout was 73.15 per cent.
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 the farmers' protests.