“Farmers Are Meals Infantrymen”: Priyanka Chopra Digs Diljit Dosanjh Tweet
Priyanka Chopra stated the farmers’ fears want to be allayed. (Report)
New Delhi:
Actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas shared her take at the farmers’ protests on Sunday, endorsing a tweet by way of singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh and calling for his or her considerations concerning the centre’s new agricultural regulations to be addressed urgently.
“Our farmers are India’s Meals Infantrymen. Their fears want to be allayed. Their hopes want to be met. As a thriving democracy, we should be sure that this crises is resolved quicker than later (sic),” she wrote on Twitter, quoting a tweet by way of Mr Dosanjh in Punjabi showcasing the secular tone of the farmers’ motion.
Priyanka Chopra’s tweet in favour of the farmers amid their stand-off with the federal government bucked the craze of celebrities infrequently taking a stand on social problems in India over fears of retribution from the federal government or its band of fanatical supporters who shape an oversized constituency on-line.
Our farmers are India’s Meals Infantrymen. Their fears want to be allayed. Their hopes want to be met. As a thriving democracy, we should be sure that this crises is resolved quicker than later. https://t.co/PDOD0AIeFv
— PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) December 6, 2020
During the last week, Twitter has performed host to an unsightly battle between Mr Dosanjh and actor Kangana Ranaut, an ardent supporter of the ruling BJP who has railed in opposition to the farmers and has been known as out in her efforts to unfold disinformation to discredit the motion.
In her tirade in opposition to the farmers’ protest difficult the brand new agricultural regulations that they are saying will go away them on the mercy of enormous companies and override safeguards in opposition to being cheated, Ms Ranaut misidentified a demonstrator as one of the vital organisers of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh sit-in in opposition to the centre’s arguable citizenship regulation and alleged she had joined the protest for Rs 100.
Mr Dosanjh’s chopping retorts to Ms Ranaut in Punjabi went viral on Twitter, surroundings off a development of Punjabi wisecracks at the social networking web page.
Of their remaining spherical of talks on Saturday, the central govt failed to damage a impasse with the hundreds of farmers protesting at the outskirts of Delhi in opposition to the rural reforms and are set to fulfill once more on Wednesday.
Top Minister Narendra Modi’s govt says the brand new regulations are supposed to overhaul antiquated procurement procedures and provides growers extra choices to promote their produce. On the other hand, the ruling BJP has confronted sharp grievance for its dealing with of the protest together with a brutal crackdown on farmers remaining week in Haryana.
