Smriti Irani slams Deepika Padukone’s JNU visit says ‘She stood with those who want destruction of India’

Union
minister Smriti Irani has reacted to actor Deepika Padukone visiting the JNU
campus in support of protesting students on Tuesday night. Speaking at an event
in Chennai on Thursday, Irani said the actor had ‘made her political
affiliation known in 2011 that she supports the Congress party’.

The Union
minister was referring to an old interview of the actor being shared by her
critics, in which she apparently backs Rahul Gandhi for Prime Minster.

“I think that anybody who has read the news knew where you are going to stand… knew that you are standing with people who celebrate every time a CRPF jawan is killed,” Irani said.

“I would
rather know what her political affiliation is than not know… I can’t deny her
that right that she will stand next to people who will beat up other girls who
don’t see eye-to-eye ideologically in private parts. That’s her freedom” she
said.

“She made
her political affiliation known in 2011 that she supports the Congress party,”
she said. “It’s her right (to) stand next to people who say Bharat tere tukde
honge,” the minister added.