Kangana Ranaut on JNU violence: Don't make it a national issue

While the whole nation is divided over the protest against the JNU violence, the Manikarnika actor Kangana Ranaut stated that people should not raise it as a national issue.

Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut has finally opened up about the violence at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in Delhi and said that the incident should not be turned into a national or political issue.

Speaking on the sidelines at the promotional event of her upcoming film Panga, the actor said: "The attack on students in JNU is currently being investigated. It's understood that there are two sides, namely JNU and ABVP, two different unions, in the university."

Speaking of violence, Kangana recalled a gang war she had witnessed during her college days in Chandigarh.

She said: "Gang war is quite common during college life. I used to stay at a girls' hostel alongside a boys' hostel, where people were followed and murdered in broad daylight. A boy once jumped into our hostel and was about to get killed by a mob, but our hostel manager saved him."

The Judgementall Hai Kya actor added that the police should take the perpetrators into custody.

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Asking not to highlight it as a national issue, Kangana said: "I would like to say that these gang wars are managed by powerful and dangerous people, which leaves both the sides hurt. Such things should not be made into a national issue."

"Police should take perpetrators into custody and give them four slaps each. Such people are found everywhere in every street and college, and they should not be made a national issue because they don't deserve it," she added.

On January 5, several masked individuals entered JNU campus and thrashed students and teachers with wooden and metal rods.

At least 20 students were admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with severe injuries, including the Students Union President Aishe Ghosh, who was reportedly hit over her eyes with an iron rod.