Bihari Sushant, Bengali Rhea, Himachali Kangana — region key in political row on actor death

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New Delhi: The controversy surrounding Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life has spawned a political showdown that has taken on regional contours. The road adopted by political events within the matter seems to be largely pushed by the citizens that types their core voter base. 

In Bihar, the BJP and the Janata Dal (United) are invoking Sushant’s roots in the state of their requires justice. In neighbouring Bengal, the Trinamool Congress and the Congress have weighed in on the controversy by citing the part Bengali lineage of Sushant’s girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty, who’s beneath investigation in connection together with his loss of life. 

The Trinamool Congress has gone so far as to say she is being victimised for her Bengali id.

In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has mounted a vociferous defence of “daughter of the state” Kangana Ranaut, who’s now a serious participant within the controversy on account of the claims she has made in reference to Rajput’s loss of life, together with her allegations of a drug mafia in Bollywood and her “worry” of Mumbai Police.

Kangana’s claims about Mumbai Police, and the parallels she has drawn between the town and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), have led the Maharashtra BJP to undertake a measured stance on the matter, as a result of the Shiv Sena has sought to painting the actor’s remarks as an assault on local pride.

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West Bengal

Rhea Chakraborty, additionally a Bollywood actor, was Rajput’s girlfriend. She is at the moment being investigated in reference to the actor’s loss of life, together with his household accusing her of dishonest Rajput out of cash and abetment to suicide, amongst different costs. 

Earlier this week, she was arrested for alleged drug possession and consumption in a Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) case that’s an offshoot of the Sushant Singh Rajput investigation. 

Rhea, who has denied all allegations, is the daughter of a Marathi homemaker and a former Military surgeon with Bengali roots. 

On Thursday, senior TMC chief and nationwide spokesperson Saugata Roy said Rhea is being “victimised for being a Bengali”.

“I really feel that as Rhea is a Bengali, she was victimised even earlier than she was confirmed responsible in courtroom. The vilification marketing campaign as soon as once more proves the sheer hatred of the BJP in direction of the Bengalis. We had witnessed one thing related within the Assam NRC, too,” 

Earlier this week, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the social gathering’s newly appointed West Bengal president, put out a sequence of tweets that termed her arrest over drug costs “ludicrous”.

Rhea’s father is a former navy officer, served the nation. Rhea is a Bengalee Brahmin girl, justice to actor sushant rajput shouldn’t be interpreted as a justice to Bihari.#SushantSinghRajputCase
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— Adhir Chowdhury (@adhirrcinc) September 9, 2020

“Rhea’s father is a former navy officer, served the nation. Rhea is a Bengalee (sic) Brahmin girl, justice to actor Sushant Rajput shouldn’t be interpreted as a justice to Bihari,” he had additional written.

At a press convention Thursday, Chowdhury mentioned Chakraborty is being “persecuted on completely different costs with out proof”.

The BJP is utilizing #SushantSinghRajput‘s loss of life as a serious political trump card for the upcoming Bihar elections. Rhea Chakraborty is being persecuted on completely different costs with out proof. They’re making an attempt to painting that solely BJP can ship justice to Biharis: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury pic.twitter.com/oBdxQjFzPm

— ANI (@ANI) September 10, 2020

Nevertheless, whilst he invokes Chakraborty’s Bengali id, he has accused the BJP of utilizing actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s loss of life “as a serious political trump card for the upcoming Bihar elections”.

Bihar

Sushant Singh Rajput, who gained the viewers’s hearts together with his highly effective performances in movies akin to Chhichhore and Dhoni, was discovered lifeless at his Mumbai flat on 14 June. He was born and raised in Patna and his father nonetheless resides within the Bihar capital.

Weeks earlier than the Bihar meeting elections, anticipated to happen later this yr, the BJP has launched a full-fledged marketing campaign looking for “justice for actor Sushant Singh Rajput”.

As much as 30,000 posters with the late actor’s image, declaring, “Na bhoole hain, na bhulne denge (now we have neither forgotten nor will we let anybody overlook)”, have been printed by the social gathering’s cultural cell. 

Whereas the social gathering insists that their marketing campaign has nothing to do with the upcoming elections, the BJP’s efforts are being seen as an attempt by the social gathering to woo the state’s Rajput neighborhood, to which the actor belonged.

The BJP’s ally within the state, the JD(U), has additionally jumped on the bandwagon by demanding justice for Rajput.

“I’ve full religion that the CBI investigation would guarantee justice for his household and the individuals of Bihar,” Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar said at a virtual poll rally Monday.

In late August, Nitish’s social gathering colleague Sanjay Singh had reportedly gone much further, demanding Chakraborty’s arrest and using “third-degree” measures to get her to “confess”.  

“She seems just like the chief of a prison gang and her face displays that she is concerned within the matter of Rajput’s suicide,” Singh was quoted as saying by information company ANI. “If the CBI makes use of third diploma, she’ll confess every part.”

In July, former deputy chief minister and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav has known as for “justice for Rajput”, and met his family in Patna.

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Maharashtra

Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut has been within the information of late for her feedback in reference to Rajput’s loss of life, be it her tirade towards cliques that she mentioned alienated Rajput within the trade, or the newer allegations of a drug nexus within the movie world.

When her latter claims led a BJP chief to recommend a security cover for her last month, she replied on Twitter that she was “extra terrified of Mumbai police” than the “film mafia goons”.

The Shiv Sena, a part of the coalition that leads the Maharashtra authorities, hit again, saying she ought to keep away from Mumbai if she fears the town’s police pressure. This led Kangana to remark that Mumbai is “feeling like PoK”, which triggered one other alternate centred on Marathi pleasure.

Even because the central authorities accorded a Y+ safety cowl to Kangana amid a perceived menace from Sena members, the Maharashtra BJP criticised her PoK parallel.

Earlier this week, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), led by the Shiv Sena, got here beneath criticism for “vendetta politics” when it demolished a part of Ranaut’s workplace for alleged unlawful alterations. The BJP was among the many critics, however made it some extent to stress that it didn’t assist Ranaut’s PoK parallel both — a comparability she reiterated this week.

I’m by no means unsuitable and my enemies show time and again because of this my Mumbai is POK now #deathofdemocracy 🙂 pic.twitter.com/bWHyEtz7Qy

— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) September 9, 2020

“We by no means supported her comment equating Mumbai to PoK. No person can assist. However the authorities’s vengeance to hold out demolition of her bungalow was not honest,”  BJP leader and former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis said earlier this week.

Himachal Pradesh

In Himachal Pradesh, in the meantime, the BJP has taken a a lot stronger place in assist of Ranaut, even saying they’re able to welcome her mother into the party, after she expressed gratitude for the safety cowl offered to the actor. 

Himachal BJP chief Suresh Kashyap tweeted Thursday that he “strongly” condemns the “Maharashtra authorities of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP for indulging in political vendetta with Kangana Ranaut”. 

“Kangana is the courageous daughter of the entire of India Himachal and the desh (nation) stands with Kangana,” Kashyap he wrote. 

Addressing the demolition, CM Jai Ram Thakur said Wednesday, “The Shiv Sena has shunned the ideas for which it was shaped. Its existence is over ever because it tied up with the Congress to type the federal government in Maharashtra.” 

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