Farmers protesting around the borders in Delhi getsinternational support time and again. Now, it is Rihanna, a Hollywood superstarand Greta Thunberg who rose to fame as a teenage by protesting against climatechange.
Rihanna in a tweet writes, "Why aren't we talkingabout this? #FarmersPrtest." She shared a news story of CNN in her tweet. Similarly,Greta Thunberg also expressed her solidarity with the protesting farmers inIndia who are agitating for more than two months now against the contentiousfarm laws.
Greta Thunberg writes, "We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtestin India."
Meanwhile, the farmersin India are going to block roads countrywide to mark their protest against thesuspension of internet while the government has resorted to fixing iron nailson the roads and the protest sites around Delhi turn into a fortress.
Also, Kangana Ranaut,who is known for her stance against the farmers tweeted in response to Rihann'stweet. Ranaut writes, "No one is talking about it because theyare not farmers they are terrorists who are trying to divide India, so thatChina can take over our vulnerable broken nation and make it a Chinese colonymuch like USA... Sit down you fool, we are not selling our nation like youdummies."
Although one tweet by Rihanna has drawn internationalattention to the problems faced by farmers in India. Moreover, tweet ofThunberg has also intensified the e-activism on micro-blogging sites.
One of the users on Twitter replied to Rihanna.@fentystin said, "thank you for speaking up rih! for those unaware ofwhats happening in india, 250 million farmers are on a protest for fair pricesand control over their product, if you wanna know how huge that number is, thepopulation of usa is 330 million. let that sink in."