Ekta Kapoor, Kailsah Kher, Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, others tweet in support of Indian Govt post Rihanna's tweet, users say paid tweets
Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Suniel Shetty, Kailash Kher,Karan Johar and Ekta Kapoor came out in support of India government and tweetedby using hashtags India together and India against propaganda. They all tweeted at a time when the government of India had again sent a notice to Twitter to comply with the orders, probably with reference to the order of withholding account posting about farmers' protest.
Now these actors have come out in support of the government and called out propaganda. However, they didn't actually stated whose propaganda but Akshay Kumar retweeted Ministry of External Affair's press statement that links the whole tweet game about Rihanna's tweet.
Kailash Kher in a tweet said, "बढ़ते वर्चस्व को देख भारत विरोधी किसी भी हद तक गिर
रहे. Evenin this sad phase of pandemic,India is helping all nations with vaccine supplyfor the sake of Humanity.Let all realise that India is ONE & will nottolerate comments against it. #IndiaTogether #IndiaAgainstPropaganda."
Ajay Devgn in a tweet wrote, "Don’t fall for any falsepropaganda against India or Indian policies. It's important to stand united atthis hour w/o any infighting #IndiaTogether #IndiaAgainstPropaganda."
Akshay Kumar afterretweeting the press statement by Ministry of External Affairs writes, "Farmers constitute an extremely important part of our country.And the efforts being undertaken to resolve their issues are evident. Let’ssupport an amicable resolution, rather than paying attention to anyone creatingdifferences. #IndiaTogether #IndiaAgainstPropaganda"
Similarly,Karan Johar also tweeted, "We live in turbulent times and the need of the hour isprudence and patience at every turn. Let us together, make every effort we canto find solutions that work for everyone—our farmers are the backbone of India.Let us not let anyone divide us. #IndiaTogether." However he didn't use the hashtagIndia against propaganda.
EktaKapoor while retweeting a Ministry of External Affairs tweet wrote, "Lets stand unitedagainst any propaganda. Together we can and we will! #IndiaAgainstPropoganda #IndiaTogether."
One ofthe users, Mohammad Zubair, @zoo_bear tweeted, "ITcell trolls who were shouting "Paid Tweet.. Paid Tweet.. Paid Tweet"are now asked to retweet Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan and Sunil Shetty's tweets."
It all started after the tweet by Rihanna in which shewrote about the farmers' protest in India. Similarly, Greta Thunberg expressedher solidarity with Indian farmers. One of the users, @YourRishbh tweeted, " Rihanna doesn't need money to tweet bcz her net worth is $600 million but if Akshay Kumar who takes ₹100 crore+ for one movie & does half a dozen movies an year is tweeting about something he must be paid by govt bcz he is poor."