Smriti Irani comes in support of Kangana Ranaut over distasteful online post

Union Minister Smriti Irani backed actress Kangana Ranaut over an objectionable social media post about her via an account with Congress leader Supriya Shrinate's username. Shrinate denied having shared the post that triggered controversy and said she had no access to the account. 

Kangana Ranaut hit back at the Congress leader, saying that people should "refrain from using sex workers' challenging lives or circumstances as some kind of abuse or slur".

The post, made a day after the BJP fielded Kangana Ranaut from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi, showed a photo of Kangana Ranaut, with a derogatory caption.