Kangana Ranaut’s sister, Rangoli Chandel’s twitter account has been suspended after she posted a tweet that encouraged violence against Muslims. Indian twitter blew up with many condemning her tweet.
Swati Chaturvedi, Kubra Sait, Reema Kagti, Farah Khan among others have spoken out against this.
Dear @Twitter gencocide calls from a verified account. Suspend. pic.twitter.com/lLUvEKdBcz
— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) April 16, 2020
Thank you @Twitter @TwitterIndia @jack for suspending this account. I reported this because she targeted a specific community and called for them to be shot along with liberal media and compared herself to the Nazis. 🙏🙏🙏 . pic.twitter.com/lJ3u6btyOm
— Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) April 16, 2020
I’ve blocked Rangoli and reported her to twitter.
But @MumbaiPolice @CMOMaharashtra @OfficeofUT This kind of hate mongering is irresponsible. Please look into it, and take necessary actions. https://t.co/WywccuZvKR— Kubbra Sait (@KubbraSait) April 16, 2020
@MumbaiPolice. Could you please look into this and take action? Isn’t this spreading fake news AND inciting hatred & violence against certain people?@OfficeofUT @AUThackeray https://t.co/tKCqS5CZgN
— Reema Kagti (@kagtireema) April 16, 2020
Once the twitter account was suspended, designer Farah Khan Ali shared this.
Thank you @Twitter @TwitterIndia @jack for suspending this account. I reported this because she targeted a specific community and called for them to be shot along with liberal media and compared herself to the Nazis. 🙏🙏🙏 . pic.twitter.com/lJ3u6btyOm
— Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) April 16, 2020
Soon after her account was suspended, she shared an official statement saying
“Twitter is an American platform absolutely biased and anti-India, you can make fun of Hindu Gods call Prime Minister and Home Minister terrorists but if you say anything about people pelting stones on health workers and Police forces they suspend your account, I have no desire of empowering any such platforms with my perspective and honest opinions, so I am not reviving my account. I was my sister’s spokesperson now watch out for her direct interviews, she is a huge star she has many ways of reaching out, a biased platform can be easily avoided.”
Rangoli Chandel and her sister actress Kangana Ranaut are known for their love and support for Narendra Modi and his government.
She regularly tweets praising everything that BJP and PM Modi´s does.
She had tweeted, when the BJP government won the elections in 2019 “Today no party, no individual won, today is that historic day when India won. We are very fortunate to have a leader like @narendramodi ji in our times, this is the beginning of a new era, time to break free and regain our lost glory…. Bharat Mata ki Jai ….Jai Hind” and her sister Kangana Ranaut had made tea and pakodas in celebration of Modi’s win. Kangana Ranaut has also said she is a big fan of Modi.
Both the sisters are quite vocal on social as well as public platforms in not just her support but in vilifying any kind of opposition against him. She also regularly calls for critics of BJP and whom she deems “anti-national”.
Rangoli Chandel who claims to be managing her sister Kangana Ranaut twitter handle is not new to controversies. She has taken to attacking people who do not appreciate her sister Kangana´s movies as well as BJP. Sometimes its difficult to differentiate if she is Kangana spokesperson or part of BJP IT troll team.
Earlier this week, she called for suspending the 2024 Lok Sabha election given the economic crisis India is facing during the pandemic and let Modiji be the PM without elections. She calls this idea `revolutionary´
There are many who have supported her Islamophobic and calling for genocide tweets but these people are themselves supporters of Muslim genocide.
There are others who support her right to freedom of speech and also since she is an acid attack survivor one should let her voice her opinions.
