The party has drawn parallels to last year’s Shaheen Bagh protest that had also garnered international attention. The BJP sees the tweets as part a “well-orchestrated” campaign to tarnish the image of the Modi government. In light of the Twitter storm kicked up by the celebrities’ tweets, the BJP - which leads the central government - has intensified its outreach programme to dispel the “false notions” being spread about the government. The farmer protest, which has been going on since Parliament passed three new farm laws in September, erupted in violence on Republic Day as many protesters violated the route map set out by Delhi Police - in consultation with farmer leaders - for their planned tractor rally and reached the heart of the capital. The temptation of sensationalist social media hashtags and comments, especially when resorted to by celebrities and others, is neither accurate nor responsible.”Īlso Read: ‘India against propaganda’, say Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar over Rihanna, Greta Thunberg tweets “Before rushing to comment on such matters, we would urge that the facts be ascertained, and a proper understanding of the issues at hand be undertaken. “Some of these vested interest groups have also tried to mobilise international support against India,” it added. India had Wednesday tweeted a statement saying “it is unfortunate to see vested interest groups trying to enforce their agenda on these (farmers’) protests, and derail them”. “International focus on these protests may be the only thing preventing state-sponsored violence and another string of massacres in the country,” it adds. “India’s farmers and citizens need the global community to pay attention,” the website states. On Twitter, the organisation has been actively tweeting about the farmers protest with the hashtag “AskIndiaWhy”, which has also spawned a website by the same name (the hashtag finds reference in the revised toolkit tweeted by Thunberg Wednesday). The PJF, which describes itself as an organisation that “challenges structures of oppression and discrimination through intersectional grassroots advocacy”, claims on its website that “currently we are most actively involved in the #FarmersProtest”.Ī screenshot of the Poetic Justice Foundation website The Canadian MP, who lauded Rihanna’s tweet, has often courted headlines for allegedly supporting the Sikh separatist movement - his participation in a 2015 rally in the US where a poster of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was reportedly put up remains especially controversial.
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