Smriti Irani SLAMS Deepika Padukone: She Sided With People Who Hit Girls On Their Private Parts
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oi-Swikriti Srivastava
By Lekhaka
Deepika
Padukone's
visit
at
Jawaharlal
Nehru
University
(JNU)
has
grabbed
many
eyeballs.
Some
are
proud
and
happy,
while
some
are
shocked
and
disgusted.
Amidst
all
the
chaos,
the
Union
Minister
of
Textiles
and
Women
and
Child
Development,
Smriti
Irani
slammed
Deepika
for
standing
next
to
JNU
students
including
Kanhaiya
Kumar,
the
former
president
of
JNUSU
and
said
that
she
wants
to
know
what
Deepika's
political
affiliation
is.
"Anybody
who
has
read
the
news
would
know
why
she
would
stand
with
the
protesters," said
Smriti
Irani,
while
speaking
to
Prabhu
Chawla
at
the
ThinkEdu
Conclave
2020.
Mrs
Irani
further
added,
"It
was
not
unexpected
to
us
that
she
was
going
to
stand
with
people
who
want
the
destruction
of
India.
She
sided
with
people
who
hit
girls
on
their
private
parts
with
lathis.
I
can't
deny
her
that
right.
It's
her
right
to
stand
next
to
people,
who
say
'Bharat
tere
tukde
honge'."
"She
made
her
political
affiliation
known
in
2011
that
she
supports
the
Congress
Party.
If
people
are
surprised
by
this,
it
is
because
they
didn't
know.
There
were
a
lot
of
admirers
of
hers
who
have
just
discovered
her
position,"
added
Smriti
Irani.
While
Smriti
Irani
is
unhappy
with
Deepika's
visit
at
JNU,
many
celebs
including
Swara
Bhaskar,
Anurag
Kashyap,
Richa
Chadha,
Sonakshi
Sinha,
Varun
Dhawan
and
Kartik
Aaryan
lauded
the
actress
for
her
brave
move.
On
a
related
note,
today
(January
10,
2020),
Deepika's
latest
film,
Chhapaak
has
also
arrived
at
the
theatres
and
it
is
yet
to
be
seen
if
her
film
would
suffer
owing
to
her
political
stand.