Kangana Ranaut's tweet directed at Rihanna's clarion call on farmers protest garners heavy criticism on social media

Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut was heavily criticised on Twitter for her tweet directed at Rihanna’s clarion call on farmers protests. The international pop star on Tuesday extended her support to the ongoing farmers agitation while criticising the internet shutdown at the protest site. The 32-year-old singer  became arguably the first global star to voice her support to the protest. “Why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest,” Rihanna wrote on Twitter alongside a CNN news article headlined, “India cuts internet around New Delhi as protesting farmers clash with police.” However, Ranaut was quick to post her reply, calling the international icon a “dummy,” and branding the farmers as “terrorists.” See the post

The tweet by Rihanna, who has 100 million followers on the microblogging site, garnered thousands of retweets and likes within an hour. Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker lauded the ‘Diamond’ hitmaker’s remarks. American television personality Lilly Singh also responded to Rihanna’s tweet, writing it is a “humanity issue.” Check out the tweets here

why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest https://t.co/obmIlXhK9S

— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 2, 2021

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Yes! Thank you so much @rihanna. This is a humanity issue! #IStandWithFarmers and this narrative is TIRED. ❤️ https://t.co/H0h5EM7mNW

— Lilly (@Lilly) February 2, 2021

🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 https://t.co/viFJPy9RMD

— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) February 2, 2021

Ranaut’s tweet, on the other hand, led to mass criticism online, with followers calling out the actress for her remarks. See the reactions to Kangana Ranaut’s tweet

#FarmersProtest #Rihanna
kangana ranaut when anybody criticizes modi government. pic.twitter.com/jLjzeg0gGK

— Tanveer Singh Hora (@imVeer_16) February 3, 2021

Every Indian Controversy and Kangana be like.. pic.twitter.com/mXrWGUvke3

— Dharmu (@JugnuJungli) February 3, 2021

Kangana ain’t important enough for @rihanna to clap back 🤷🏽‍♀️ But agreed, that would be epic 😂 https://t.co/36yMzkhQhN

— Neha Singh (@NehaSinghNYC) February 3, 2021

Yep. Kangana and Bhakts always trend together. pic.twitter.com/pO5Hipwint

— Aditya Arora (@TheAdityaArora) February 2, 2021

Before India faces any more international beizzati, Modiji should withdraw the 3 farm laws and Kangana Ranaut.

— PunsterX (@PunsterX) February 2, 2021

It is unlikely to occur to our fake Jhansi ki Rani @KanganaTeam that real one would never have abandoned her farmers.

— SonaliRanade (@sonaliranade) February 3, 2021

Thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, have been camping at several Delhi border points since November end, demanding the government to repeal the three recently amended farm laws, and the legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for their crops. Farmer unions on Monday announced a countrywide ‘’chakka jam’’ on 6 February when they would block national and state highways for three hours in protest against the internet ban in areas near their agitation sites, harassment allegedly meted out to them by authorities, and other issues. Sites of the farmer protest at Delhi’s borders have turned into fortresses with the police beefing up security and putting up multi-layer barricades to stop the movement of vehicles. Barbed wire has also been put up to keep off people on foot. The strengthened security measures at the agitation sites across the Delhi borders come after the violence during the Republic Day tractor parad e by protesting farmers in which 394 security personnel were injured. (With inputs from Press Trust of India)