{"id":30121,"date":"2026-08-01T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/kangana-ranaut-jabalpur-protest-students-burn-effigy-demand-resignation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:49:19","slug":"kangana-ranaut-jabalpur-protest-students-burn-effigy-demand-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/kangana-ranaut-jabalpur-protest-students-burn-effigy-demand-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kangana Ranaut Jabalpur Protest | Students Burn Effigy; Demand Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"d1172d9b\">\n<p><span class=\"e81caeeb\">Jabalpur<\/span><span class=\"c49a6b85\">19 minutes ago<\/span><span class=\"b96cf284\">Author: Suneel Vishwakarma<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/01\/whatsappvideo2026-08-01at134848-ezgifcom-optimize_1785572487.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/01\/whatsappvideo2026-08-01at134848-ezgifcom-optimize_1785572487.gif\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/01\/whatsappvideo2026-08-01at134848-ezgifcom-optimize_1785572487.gif\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Tensions escalated after actor-turned-politician and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut made remarks about the mindset of some women from the younger generation, referring to them as \u201cgutter-chhaap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Students staged a protest in Jabalpur on Saturday against Ranaut\u2019s remarks concerning students protesting over the NEET examination at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The protesters gathered at Ghantaghar, burned an effigy of Ranaut and demanded her resignation as an MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The protesting students said the Delhi demonstration was linked to allegations of a NEET paper leak and concerns over students\u2019 futures. They alleged that Ranaut\u2019s remarks about students and women in connection with such a serious issue were inappropriate and objectionable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>Students warn of more protests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Student Ruchika Gupta said students had taken part in the Delhi protest despite facing police action, and alleged that the language used by Ranaut about the movement was against democratic values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">She said remarks against women of this nature could not be accepted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The protesters burned Ranaut\u2019s effigy in the presence of police. They warned that demonstrations would continue in the city if action was not taken against the BJP MP and she was not removed from office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>What did Kangana Ranaut Say?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Ranaut had criticised a student protest at Delhi\u2019s Jantar Mantar, which she described as being led by the \u201cCockroach Janata Party (CJP).\u201d She referred to the participating Gen-Z students as \u201cGeneration Gutter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">She also shared a post on her Instagram Story criticising reels related to the student protests, describing them as vulgar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Ranaut said watching such reels made her feel like vomiting. Expressing her anger on Instagram, she criticised the language and manner of speaking used by the protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">She wrote that she had never seen \u201csuch vulgar content\u201d together in a single frame and questioned who was raising the people involved and how they had been brought up.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jabalpur19 minutes agoAuthor: Suneel Vishwakarma Tensions escalated after actor-turned-politician and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut made remarks about the mindset of some women from the younger generation, referring to them as \u201cgutter-chhaap.\u201d Students staged a protest in Jabalpur on Saturday against Ranaut\u2019s remarks concerning students protesting over the NEET examination at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[22286,23259,1709,23257,22249,23258,21821,20970],"class_list":["post-30121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mp","category-states","tag-bjp-mp","tag-gutter-chhaap-controversy","tag-jabalpur-news","tag-jabalpur-protest","tag-kangana-ranaut","tag-kangana-ranaut-statement","tag-resignation-demand","tag-student-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}