Is Kangana Ranaut Right?

The common man is amused to see the Opposition leaders publicly exhibiting their ignorance of what a 'metaphor' (figure of speech) is, by taking in its literal sense what Kangana stated metaphorically about 'India getting its “real” independence' in 2014 after the BJP and Narendra Modi came to power!

 

Is there anything new in what Kangana Ranaut said? Seven years ago The Guardian in its Editorial proclaimed, when Narendra Modi was swept to power with an unexpectedly wide margin:

"Today, 18 May 2014, may well go down in history as the day when Britain finally left India."

Here are some strongly indicting extracts from that Editorial piece reinforcing Kangana's observation:

"India under the Congress party was in many ways a continuation of the British Raj by other means."

"The India those men and women lived in was one that, like its predecessor, was centralized, garrisoned, culturally constricted, and ruled by a relatively small English-speaking elite whose attitude toward the masses was alternately benevolent and exploitative but never inclusive."

"In the old India the poor were there to be helped, when the elite remembered to do so or when they needed to seek or, in effect, to buy votes. The middling classes were taken for granted and sometimes snubbed. The new India, most observers agree, is not interested in handouts, and refuses to be snubbed."

"It has discarded the deference it displayed toward the Gandhi family and toward the Anglicized or, these days, Americanized top levels of society."

"Whatever else he is or is not, Mr. Modi is a gifted politician. We must hope that he understands that his new India will sooner or later hold him to account."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/may/18/india-narendra-modi-election-destiny

Yes, the new India held Mr. Narendra Modi to account after five years and brought him back with a more resounding victory in the 2019 elections.