Diljit Dosanjh criticized Kangana Ranaut for trying to discredit farmers’ protests near Delhi.
New Delhi:
Actor Kangana Ranaut, charged on Twitter for misidentifying an elderly woman at the farmers’ protest in Delhi as one of the organizers of Shaheen Bagh’s rally against the center’s controversial citizenship law, lashed out at singer and actor Diljit Dosanjh el Thursday, starting a long exchange of unpleasant things on the social networking site.
Doubling down on her tirade against the farmers movement against new farm laws that they say will leave them at the mercy of big corporations and overturn safeguards against deception, Ms. Ranaut, a fervent supporter of the ruling BJP, called out Mr. Dosanjh filmmaker “Karan Johar’s pet”.
The “Udta Punjab” star responded by accusing Ms Ranaut of trying to cover up her misinformation with abusive language and the dispute, which began Wednesday night, continued through Thursday night, even after the latter deleted the original tweet.
In addition to being reprimanded by Mr. Dosanjh and several other prominent Twitter users, Kangana Ranaut also received legal advice from a Punjab lawyer for wrongly identifying a Mahinder Kaur protester as Bilkis Bano, known as one of the “Shaheen Bagh dadis “and claiming that he had joined the protest for 100 rupees.
Ms. Ranaut, along with other right-wing commentators, has placed herself squarely on the opposite side of farmers who defied a brutal police crackdown in Haryana before they were allowed to hold a peaceful protest in Delhi against the new farm laws.
As an advocate for the policies of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, the “Queen” star has taken it upon herself to label the farmers’ movement as misguided, motivated, and against national interests.
Meanwhile, union ministers began talks with farmers’ leaders on Thursday to try to break the deadlock in laws passed earlier this year that seek to deregulate the agricultural sector that has sparked the country’s largest agricultural protests in years. .
Tens of thousands of farmers have camped outside Delhi in protest against laws that seek to rid the sector of outdated procurement procedures and allow farmers to sell to institutional buyers and large international retailers.
Farmers, who form a powerful political electorate, fear that laws passed in September could pave the way for the government to stop buying grain at guaranteed prices, leaving them at the mercy of private buyers.
Farming groups say the government is trying to end a decades-long policy of providing them with a guaranteed minimum price to produce staple foods such as wheat and rice.
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