Hardik Patel has spoken in favour of Bollywood actress Sunny Leone and said that she deserves respect, just like any other actress, and we need to come out of her previous image of a porn star. According to a PTI report, Patel, while responding to a query on his views on the actress was quoted as saying, "Why can't we view Sunny Leone as an actress on screen independent of her old image? What's the problem if we look at her the way we look at actresses Nargis, Sridevi, or Madhuri Dixit. If our thinking is such that we still want to see Sunny Leone on the basis of her old image (as a porn star), then this country can never change."

In the past as well, the Kisan Kranti Sena national president has spoken in favour of the actress. He was in the city to announce a 'yatra' he would be starting on next month across Madhya Pradesh to create "awareness" among voters.

Patel on Sunday further said that no elections would be held in the country if Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister again in 2019. He also went on to say that Modi would make a rule like in China where the President has made his tenure for an indefinite period.

(With inputs from PTI)

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