Kangana Ranaut's 'golgappa' jibe at Shankaracharya for supporting Uddhav

BJP MP Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday defended her ally and Shiv Sena's Eknath Shinde over Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath's "betrayal" remark.

In an apparent jibe at Mr Shinde, the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati said that in tenets of Hinduism, treachery is considered to be one of the biggest sins, and "those who betray cannot be a Hindu". He was referring to the collapse of the former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in 2022.

"We are Hindus and followers of the Sanatan Dharma that believes in 'punya' (virtue) and 'paap' (sin), wherein 'vishwasghat' (betrayal) is said to be among the biggest sins. The same happened here (in Maharashtra)," the news agency IANS quoted Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, who was in Mumbai at the invitation of Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray, as saying.