BJP wants to win Bihar elections by supporting Kangana Ranaut: Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that the BJP was trying to win the upcoming Bihar elections by supporting Kangana Ranaut, who has recently engaged in a war of words with Raut’s party, news agency PTI reported. He also claimed that the BJP wants to be successful in Bihar through its stand regarding the Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

In his weekly column Rokhthok in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut also said that it was unfortunate that the BJP is supporting Ranaut despite her comparing Mumbai with Pakistan occupied Kashmir. 

He claimed that a systemic effort was being given to make Mumbai unimportant in the country, and tarnishing the image of the city was a part of that conspiracy.

“This is a difficult period when all Marathi people in Maharashtra should unite,” Raut said.

By supporting Ranaut and through its stand in the Sushant Singh Rajput case, the BJP wants to win Bihar polls with the upper caste Rajput and Kshatriya votes, he said.

“While doing this, it doesn’t matter if Maharashtra is insulted. Not one Maharashtra (BJP) leader was sad over the manner in which the state has been humiliated,” Raut said.

“An actress humiliates the chief minister and people of the state shouldn’t react, what kind of one-sided freedom is this,” asked Raut, who is the executive editor of Saamana.

“When her illegal construction in the city, which she calls as Pakistan, is demolished, she calls the demolished structure a Ram mandir. You are crying hoarse when there is a surgical strike on the illegal construction. What kind of a game is this?” he asked.

Responding to the demolition, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis had said the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government should focus on fighting coronavirus instead of Kangana Ranaut.