Ramya recently visited Pakistan to attend the SAARC summit for young parliamentarians.
Actor turned Politician Ramya (Divya Spandana), who recently visited Pakistan to attend the SAARC summit for young parliamentarians, is now facing sedition charges for praising the people of Pakistan for their hospitality.
On her return from Pakistan Ramya addressed a rally in her former constituency Mandya and she had refuted Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s “going to Pakistan or hell is the same” remark, saying: “Pakistan is not hell. People there are just like us. They treated us very well.”
K Vittal Gowda, a lawyer in Karnataka, has filed a case against the former Lok Sabha MP in Kodagu under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 124-A (sedition). The court will hear the case on 27 August.
Ramya’s statement has also sparked protest across the state by local ABVP and BJP cadres, who are demanding an apology from her, failing which, they want her to move to Pakistan.
The Kannada actor and member of Congress since 2011 has been called all sorts of names, including “anti-national” by twitterati and trolled as well.
Ramya quoted Bhagavat Gita as a response to all these protests and wrote: “Delusion arises from anger. Mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when mind is bewildered.”
“I’m entitled to freedom of speech. Nobody can curb it,” she told CNN-News18.
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"Delusion arises from anger.Mind is bewildered by delusion.Reasoning is destroyed when mind is bewildered"- the Gita pic.twitter.com/Gcedc7XtQg
— Ramya/Divya Spandana (@divyaspandana) August 21, 2016