“We stand in solidarity with #farmersprotest in India,” Greta Thunberg tweeted. (Archive)
New Delhi:
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has extended her support for farmers’ protest on the Delhi borders against controversial farm laws.
“We stand in solidarity with #farmersprotest in India,” Ms Thunberg tweeted on Tuesday night.
We stand in solidarity with him #FarmersProtest In India.
https://t.co/tqvR0oHgo0– Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) February 2, 2021
The teenage activist’s tweet came hours after international pop icon Rihanna shared a news article highlighting the government’s latest crackdown on agitator farmers by cutting off internet services in many regions.
“Why aren’t we talking about this ?! #FarmersProtest,” the ‘Don’t Stop The Music’ singer tweeted. Within hours of her tweet, the singer gained another lakh of followers out of the more than 100 million followers on Twitter.
Why aren’t we talking about this ?! #FarmersProtesthttps://t.co/obmIlXhK9S
– Rihanna (@rihanna) February 2, 2021
The tweet sent the singer trending on Twitter with thousands of responses, including one from actor Kangana Ranaut, a fervent supporter of the ruling BJP who has not doubted his strong dislike of the farmers’ protest that has challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi. .
No one is talking about it because they are not farmers, they are terrorists who are trying to divide India, so that China can take over our vulnerable broken nation and turn it into a Chinese colony like the US.
Sit down, fool, we are not selling our nation like you fools. https://t.co/OIAD5Pa61a– Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) February 2, 2021
Internet services in the Delhi border areas of Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri, epicenters of farmers’ protest for months against the center’s farm laws, were suspended on Saturday and the shutdown was extended twice to last until except 5 pm Wednesday.
Lakhs of farmers across India have protested since September to demand that the center repeal laws that they say will leave them at the mercy of big corporate companies.
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