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Indian government slams Rihanna and Greta Thunberg s tweets on Indian farmers protests
India accuses “foreign individuals” and celebrities of “sensationalism” after tweet by pop star Rihanna, extending support to protesting farmershttps://t.co/Mwyvnj1dty BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 3, 2021
Rihanna posted on Twitter about increasingly tense protests by Indian farmers against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. These protests are currently in their third month, and involve contentious changes to agricultural laws that many of the country s farmers (who mostly possess their own, very limited land holdings) fear will leave them vulnerable to more volatile free market forces. Modi is offering to suspend the laws, but the protesting farmers are arguing for a complete repeal.
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It’s Bollywood versus Rihanna; Indian government brings its own stars to counter the popstar’s tweet about farmers protest
It’s Bollywood versus Rihanna; Indian government brings its own stars to counter the popstar’s tweet about farmers protest
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farmers protest.
India’s Ministry of External Affairs has since called the tweets by foreign individuals sensational and irresponsible.
Bollywood stars like
Akshay Kumar,
Ajay Devgn, Karan Johar have taken to Twitter asking people not to “fall for any propaganda”.On Wednesday morning,
Indian government came under global scrutiny for the way it is handling the ongoing farmers’ protest. This was after American pop star Rihanna tweeted about the agitation.
Indian government and Rihanna embroiled in row after singer shows support for protesting farmers
The Indian Government said Rihanna s tweet in support of the farmers was sensationalist
3 February 2021 • 1:34pm
Rihanna s tweet has been liked over 530,000 times on Twitter so far
Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The Indian government and pop star Rihanna have become embroiled in an unlikely row, with New Delhi describing a tweet from the singer that drew global attention to India’s widespread farmers protests as “sensationalist”.
On Tuesday evening, Rihanna shared an article by CNN to her 101 million Twitter followers with the caption “why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest.”
Updated Feb 03, 2021 | 13:48 IST
Rihanna, who has global chartbusters like Diamonds and Umbrella to her credit, was praised by a section of social media users for speaking up on the issue of farmers protest. Rihanna | Photo Credit: IANS
New Delhi: Months-long protest and one tweet have left celebrities, Indians as well as international, divided. On Tuesday, international pop star Rihanna became the first global name to extend support to the ongoing farmers’ protest in India.
Thousands of farmers in India, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting at several Delhi border points since November 2020, seeking repeal of the three farm laws and legal guarantee of minimum support price for their crops.