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FIR filed against Kangana Ranaut over ‘generation gutter’ remark
A case has been filed against BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut in an Agra court for calling student protesters at Jantar Mantar the 'gutter generation'. The Rajiv Gandhi Bar Association president,…
The Story in Brief
A case has been filed against BJP MP and actor Kangana Ranaut in an Agra court for calling student protesters at Jantar Mantar the 'gutter generation'. The Rajiv Gandhi Bar Association president, Ramashankar Sharma, filed the suit, accusing her of insulting students and their parents, news agency ANI reports. The court will hear the matter on August 21.
Ranaut later clarified that her comments were directed only at protesters who called themselves 'cockroaches', not all youth. 'If someone claims to be a cockroach, then naturally they would live in a gutter,' she told ANI. She had earlier posted videos of the Gen Z protests were 'puke-inducing' and called them 'generation gutter'.
The Indian Opinion
The 'gutter generation' controversy is a gift to politicians who want to avoid talking about the NEET paper leak. Ranaut's defence, that she was only replying to protesters who called themselves cockroaches, is thin, given her blanket Instagram post about 'Gen Z protests'. But the lawyer who filed the suit also called her remarks a 'habit', which sounds more like a personal feud than a defence of students. The real test is not the August 21 hearing, but whether this distracts from the core demand: a fair NEET exam.
Sources (3): livemint.com, hindustantimes.com, timesnownews.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 3 sources.
