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Kangana Ranaut faces FIR over ‘gutter generation’ remark
BJP MP and actress Kangana Ranaut faces an FIR in an Agra court for calling Gen Z protesters a 'gutter generation' during the NEET-UG paper leak demonstrations at Jantar Mantar. Advocate Ramashankar…
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BJP MP and actress Kangana Ranaut faces an FIR in an Agra court for calling Gen Z protesters a 'gutter generation' during the NEET-UG paper leak demonstrations at Jantar Mantar. Advocate Ramashankar Sharma, president of the Rajiv Gandhi Bar Association, filed the suit, accusing her of insulting students and their parents. The hearing is set for August 21.
In a separate Instagram post, Ranaut defended her remark, claiming only 2,000 of the 10,000 protesters were Gen Z and that the rest were 'Shabana Azmi-type people'. She insisted her comments targeted only the crowd at the protest, not the entire youth.
The Indian Opinion
The easy narrative is 'politician vs students', but this is a celebrity exercising free speech and facing legal blowback for its coarseness. Kangana's insult was undeniably harsh, yet calling every protester a 'Shabana Azmi-type' is lazy ageism, not analysis. A court will decide on August 21 if her words crossed into legal malice. The real test: will either side produce evidence of actual disruption, or is this just a war of outraged Instagram stories?
Sources (2): timesofindia.indiatimes.com, bollywoodlife.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources.
