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Richa Chadha Hails Social Activist Greta Thunberg For Expressing Solidarity With Farmers Protests

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After worldwide pop icon Rihanna tweeted concerning the farmers’ protest, it was teen social activist Greta Thunberg who prolonged her help to the farmers’ protest at Delhi borders towards the controversial agricultural legal guidelines. Thunberg took to her Twitter account on Tuesday evening and wrote: “We stand in solidarity with #farmersprotest in India”. Bollywood actor Richa Chadha reacted to Greta’s tweet. She replied with a “Yes” to Greta. Also Read – ‘We Stand in Solidarity’: After Rihanna, Activist Greta Thunberg Extends Support To Farmers’ Protest ❤️🙏🏼🏹 https://t.co/FNnxzutVmA Also Read – Donald Trump, Greta Thunberg, WHO, Kremlin Critic on The List of Nobel Peace Prize Nominees— TheRichaChadha (@RichaChadha) February 2, 2021 Also Read – Tandav Over Supreme Court’s Order: Richa Chadha, Konkona Sensharma React After Gauahar KhanRihanna on Tuesday had shared an article highlighting the Indian authorities’s newest crackdown on the agitating farmers by reducing off web companies and wrote: “Why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest”. The 32-year-old singer’s tweet gained instantaneous traction on Twitter, with a couple of lakh retweets and two lakh likes inside hours. Many Bollywood celebrities together with Swara Bhasker, Hansal Mehta, Lilly Singh lauded Rihanna for supporting farmers. However, Kangana Ranaut was the one one who talked negatively about Rihanna’s tweet. She wrote: “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 make it a Chinese colony much like the USA. Sit down you fool, we are not selling our nation like you dummies.” Later, Ranaut was trolled over this.

The farmers’ protest began after the federal government handed three legal guidelines within the agriculture sector in September 2020. Thousands of protesting farmers, primarily from Punjab and Haryana, have been tenting at a number of Delhi borders for over two months, demanding the repeal of the legal guidelines, and a authorized assure on minimal help costs (MSP) for his or her crops.