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.