Actress Kangana Ranaut has reacted to the detainment of Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in an abetment to suicide case. In a video shared on Twitter, Kangana slammed the Maharashtra government, and said that ‘free speech greats’ like herself and Arnab should not be discouraged.
She tweeted, “Pappupro ko gussa kyun aata hai? Penguins ko gussa kyun aata hai? Sonia sena ko itna gussa kyun aata hai? Arnab sir let them pull your hair and assault you for the cause of free speech greats before us got hanged with smiles on their faces, Aazadi ka karz chukana hai (We have to pay the debt of freedom)#ArnabGoswami.”
In the video, where she is seen in a car, she said: “I want to ask the Maharashtra government that today, you went inside Arnab Goswami’s house, beat him, pulled him by his hair, assaulted him. How many houses will you break? How many throats will you choke, how many people’s hair will your pull and how many voices will you silence? Sonia Sena, how many mouths will you gag? These voices will keep growing. Before us, so many martyrs’ throats were slit, they were hanged for their right to free speech. No matter, you will silence, many others will rise,” she said.
In a statement, Republic TV claimed the case against Arnab “was closed by a court of law after a closure report by the police noted that no case was made out”. Republic TV sought public support “to stand against the onset of an emergency in Maharashtra under CM Uddhav Thackeray and at the hands of Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also compared the arrest of Arnab Goswami to the Emergency.