Katrina Kaif apologizes for calling Rahul Gandhi half-Indian
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oi-Kalyani Prasad Keshri
By Kalyani Prasad Keshri
Actress
Katrina
Kaif
has
apologised
for
calling
Rahul
Gandhi
as
“half
Indian".
The
actress
says
that
her
remarks
were
taken
out
of
context.
“The
comments
have
been
misconstrued.
They
have
been
taken
out
of
context.
But
having
said
that
if
I
have
caused
hurt
to
anyone's
sentiments,
I
deeply
apologise.
It
was
not
the
intention
at
all," Kaif
told
a
TV
news
channel.
Recently,
in
an
interview
to
a
newspaper,
the
actress
while
defensing
her
half
Indian
half
British
ethnicity
told,
“I"m
not
the
only
half-Asian
half-British
person
on
this
planet!
My
passport"s
copies
are
with
every
news
channel
in
this
country.
Should
I
be
ashamed
that
I
am
only
half
Asian?
Rahul
Gandhi
is
half
Indian,
half
Italian.
So?
I
am
very
proud
of
what
I
am
and
I
don"t
understand
the
confusion
as
if
I
am
trying
to
hide
that
my
mother
is
British.
Why
would
I?"
Katrina
who
recently
turned
28
recently
told
that
she
made
those
comments
without
any
"malice
or
real
thought".
She
regretted
that
the
sentence
was
misconstrued
by
the
media.
"I
will
also
request
the
media
not
to
make
a
controversial
issue
out
of
something
which
was
not
meant
with
any
intention
or
malice
or
any
real
thought
behind
it.
That's
all
I
have
to
say," she
told.
Katrina's
remarks
on
Rahul
Gandhi's
ethnicity
met
with
contempt
by
the
Congress.
The
spokesperson
Manish
Tewari
sarcastically
commented
back,
"Who
is
she?
I
do
not
know.
Tomorrow,
you
will
ask
for
our
reaction
on
the
statement
of
Johnny
Lever.
To
what
level
you
want
to
bring
down
the
level
of
the
political
discourse
in
the
country?"