The farmers’ protests in India have obtained international attention from personalities like pop-star Rihanna, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, Amanda Cerny, singers Jay Sean, Dr Zeus to former adult star Mia Khalifa. They took to social media to extend their support to farmers who have been protesting for since November 26 last year over the Centre’s farms laws in Delhi. Many netizens lashed out at them for their tweet.
On Thursday, Sonakshi Sinha also joined the bandwagon and extended her support to the farmer’s protest. She also expressed her thoughts on Rihanna’s tweet and the subsequent response from Bollywood. The post also spoke about the journalists being harassed, suspension of internet, hate speech.“The voices raised are about the violation of human rights, suppressions of free internet and expression, state propaganda, hate speech and abuse of power,” it added. The statements were posted by a handle @storysellercomics on Instagram.
Further, she added how the protesters are being defamed through the media and state propaganda, she also slammed those who are calling this an ‘internal matter’. The ‘Dabangg’ actress concluded the story with a message: ‘Wake up.’
People on social media were quite impressed by Sonakshi and the netizens on Twitter posted screenshots of the actress’s Instagram stories and they could not stop praising her. A user also said that she had a ‘spine’ to speak up.
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After international personalities’ tweets, the Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement with the hashtags #IndiaAgainstPropaganda and #IndiaTogether. Soon after, B-Town celebs also tweeted using the hashtag, however, it did not go well with the netizens and they were slammed for their co-ordinated tweets.
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