New Delhi:

Bharat Rashtriya Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao today mocked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Kangana Ranaut for calling freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chan Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was “India’s first Prime Minister”. minister”.

KTR in a post on BJP leader says Mahatma Gandhi is our Prime Minister!! Where did all these people graduate from?”

Subash Chandra Bose was our first Prime Minister, says a BJP candidate from the North!

Another BJP leader from the South said Mahatma Gandhi was our Prime Minister!

Where did these people graduate? 😁

— KTR (@KTRBRS) April 5, 2024

In a TV interview, the actor-politician said: “Tell me one thing, when we got independence, where did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the first Prime Minister of India, go? “

Congress leader Supriya Shrinate also endorsed Kangana Ranaut’s statement and wrote: “Don’t take her lightly – she will be high on the list of BJP leaders”.

Kangana Ranaut was widely criticized for claiming that India gained true independence after Narendra Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in 2014.

On March 24, Kangana Ranaut was nominated by the BJP as one of the 111 candidates contesting the Lok Sabha polls. Ms. Ranaut, who has been an outspoken supporter of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, posted on Instagram that she was honored to join the BJP.

“My beloved Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its affiliated party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have always had my unconditional support and today the national leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party has declared me as the national leader from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, my birthplace. candidates for the Lok Sabha constituency).

Polling in Himachal Pradesh will be held in a phased manner on June 1 for four seats.

The Mandi Lok Sabha constituency remains largely a battleground for the erstwhile royal family, whose descendants have won 13 out of 19 elections, including two by-elections held for the seat.

Between 2009 and 2021, a total of 3 general elections and 2 by-elections were held in the Mandi seat. The Congress party played an important role in these elections and won three times.

Virbhadra Singh in the 2009 general election and Pratibha Singh, the Congress candidate from the Mandi seat in the 2013 and 2021 by-elections Elected to Parliament.

In both the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections, the BJP won and Ram Swarup Sharma was elected to the parliament twice. However, in 2021, Ram Swaroop Sharma unfortunately committed suicide. Subsequently, in the 2021 by-election, the seat fell to Pratibha Singh of the Congress Party. Currently, the BJP holds three out of the four seats in the Lok Sabha.

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