CISF constable, who slapped Kangana at Chandigarh airport suspended

The CISF constable who slapped actress-turned-newly-elected MP from Mandi, HP, Kangana Ranaut, at the Chandigarh airport on Thursday has taken to the CISF Commandant Office for questioning after being placed under suspension.

Chandigarh: The CISF constable who slapped actress-turned-newly-elected MP from Mandi, HP, Kangana Ranaut, at the Chandigarh airport on Thursday has taken to the CISF Commandant Office for questioning after being placed under suspension.

The constable, Kulvinder Kaur, who has been on duty at the airport for the past two-and-a-half years, in fact, was seen on television channels after the incident, stating that she was upset because of the kind of statements made by Kangana during the farmers’ agitation.

“My mother was also among the protesters when she (Kangana) made these remarks,” Kaur could be heard saying. “She gave a statement that the farmers are sitting there for Rs 100. Will she go and sit there? My mother was sitting there and protesting when she gave this statement,” Kaur added.

It is learnt the constable was also unhappy because Kangana referred to the protesting farmers as ‘Khalistanis’. The incident took place when Kangana was travelling to New Delhi to join her colleagues for the meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party scheduled to be held on Friday.

Kangana also posted a video on X to confirm eyewitness reports that she had been “slapped and abused” by Kaur when she was on her way to board a flight from Chandigarh to New Delhi.

Kaur, Kangana confirmed, slapped her at the security checkpoint because she was upset with her earlier remarks on the protests by farmers in Punjab. Kangana said she was safe and unharmed, but expressed her concern over the “rise of militancy and terrorism in Punjab”.

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