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#SpinelessCelebs trends on Twitter as counter to celebrities' #IndiaTogether tweets on farmers' protest
Farmers' Protest
(From L to R) Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar, Akshay Kumar, Virat Kohli

#SpinelessCelebs trends on Twitter as counter to celebrities' #IndiaTogether tweets on farmers' protest

| @indiablooms | 04 Feb 2021, 06:23 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The popular Indian celebrities on Thursday faced heat on social media a day after they tweeted against any alleged foreign propaganda on the ongoing farmers' protest.

A day after several former and current Indian cricketers, who are massively popular among 1.3 billion Indians, favoured the resolution of the stalemate without any foreign interference through tweets with #IndiaTogether and #IndiaAgainstPropanganda, #SpinelessCelebs trended on the micro-blogging site on Thursday throughout.

One Mourya Debpanda mocked almost identical tweets by the celebs saying, "Last time this sort of copy paste to place when I was in 7th grade and CBSE was relevant......"

Manvir Singh tweeted, "BLACK LIVES MATTER WAS AMERICAS INTERNAL MATTER."

One Nitish tweeted, "Divided by franchises united by BJP."

Look at the tweets posted by Indian cricketers and Bollywood personalities

Sachin Tendulkar tweeted, "India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants. Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation."

Anil Kumble tweeted, "As the world's largest democracy, India is more than capable of taking her internal issues to amicable solutions. Onwards and upwards."

Virat Kohli tweeted, "Let us all stay united in this hour of disagreements. Farmers are an integral part of our country and I'm sure an amicable solution will be found between all parties to bring about peace and move forward together."

Akshay Kumar tweeted, "Farmers constitute an extremely important part of our country. And the efforts being undertaken to resolve their issues are evident. Let’s support an amicable resolution, rather than paying attention to anyone creating differences."

"Don’t fall for any false propaganda against India or Indian policies. Its important to stand united at this hour w/o any infighting," Ajay Devgn tweeted.

Lata Mangeshkar tweeted, "... India is a glorious nation and we all Indians stand with our heads held high. As a proud Indian, I have full faith, that any issues of problems that as a country we face; we are fully equipped to resolve them amicably, keeping the interest of our people in mind. Jai Hind."

Prior to the series of tweets posted by the popular Indian personalities, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) called the "social media hashtags and comments" by celebrities "neither accurate nor responsible".

The farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, are camped at the Delhi borders since Nov 26, 2020, protesting against the agricultural reform which they fear would leave them at the mercy of big corporate houses.

Though more than 10 rounds of talks have already occured between the representatives of the government and protesters, the stalemate is still continuing as the farmers demand the repeal of the three new farm laws and a legal guarantee of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their produce.

The farmers' tractor rally turned violent on Jan 26 in the national capital claiming the life of at least one farmer and injury to more than 100 police personnel.

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