Actress Kangana Ranaut, who received the Padma Shri, said in an interview to a news channel that India’s independence from the British in 1947 was ‘bheek‘ (alms). She went on to claim that India got its “real” independence only in 2014 as the BJP and Narendra Modi came to power. In this episode of Arfa ka India, Arfa Khanum Sherwani discuss Ranaut’s statements, the larger implications of the increasing support to what she said and more.
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Arfa Khanum Sherwani analyses the actor’s statement that India’s Independence in 1947 was ‘bheek’ and that the country only got ‘real’ freedom in 2014.
