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farmers prOtest: fOreign hand?

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ing more than 700,000 likes. Earlier, Delhi Police on
“Why aren’t we talking about Friday wrote a letter to Goo-
this?!” wrote the singer, who gle seeking registration details
has 100 million followers on the and activity log of the account
social network. After Rihan- through which a “toolkit” relat-
na’s tweet, Swedish teenage cli- ed to the farmers’ protest was
mate activist Thunberg tweeted created and uploaded on the so-
“We stand in solidarity with the cial media platform. Two e-mail
#FarmersProtest in India.” IDs, one Instagram account and
Meanwhile, Meena Harris one Unifrom Resource Locator
on Wednesday tweeted: She (URL) were mentioned in the
wrote on Twitter, “It’s no coinci- toolkit and police has asked for
dence that the world’s oldest de- details from the respective plat-
mocracy was attacked not even forms.
a month ago, and as we speak, The police had registered an
the most populous democracy is FIR against unnamed persons
under assault.” in connection with the creators
“This is related. We ALL of the “toolkit’.
should be outraged by India’s Delhi Police Special Com-
internet shutdowns and para- farmers ride a tractor on a deserted road near Delhi on saturday (ANI) missioner Praveer Ranjan had
military violence against farmer said they had identified some
protesters,” she added. 300 accounts spreading dissat-
Just a day after pop-singer isfaction and disharmony to-
Rihanna expressed concerns wards the Government of India.
over the ongoing farmers’ pro- ‘”Toolkit’ account was being run
test in India, Punjabi singer Dil- by a group of Khalistanis. They
jit Dosanj released a new song had decided to conduct a digi-
‘RiRi (Rihanna),’ in apprecia- tal strike post the Republic Day
tion of the global icon. Dosanjh incident. We have recovered a
made the announcement about document about the planned
the song just a few minutes be- execution. We have found out
fore its release. The track has that is a copycat execution. As
been written by Raj Ranjodh of now, we have registered cas-
and music has been given by In- es against the authors of that
tense Music. The track named account. The case has been
‘RiRi’, which is two-minutes-fif- handed over to the cyber cell.
teen-seconds long, features Investigations are underway,”
Dosanjh heaping praises on the he had said.
‘Diamonds’ singer. Meena Harris with her aunt Kamala Harris (file photo) The police believe there was
Through the lyrics of the a conspiracy behind the January
song, the Punjabi musician talks they obviously didn’t know very earlier this week that protests 26 violence in Delhi too. Delhi
about Rihanna’s home country much”. by farmers against new farm Police on Saturday said they are
Barbados and about the regular The minister told ANI that laws must be seen in the con- examining the footage of violent
cliche of beauty and clothing. In ‘toolkit’ case, which is being text of India’s democratic ethos incidents that took place during
the main part of the song, Diljit probed by police, has revealed a and polity, and the efforts of the farmers’ tractor rally against
also sings about how Rihanna lot. “I think it has revealed a lot. the Government and the con- the new farm laws on Republic
is an angel who has descended We have to wait and see what cerned farmer groups to resolve Day, adding that the Cyber Cell
from heaven on Earth. comes out. You can see there the impasse. “Before rushing to is investigating videos and oth-
The government of India was a reason why the foreign comment on such matters, we ers material being uploaded and
sees a big conspiracy behind ministry reacted to the state- would urge that the facts be as- posted on social media from
the twitter storm. External Af- ments which some celebrities certained, and a proper under- foreign locations.
fairs Minister S Jaishankar on gave out on matters on which standing of the issues at hand A Delhi Police spokesperson
Saturday said that there was a they obviously didn’t know very be undertaken. The temptation said that the cyber-world has no
reason why MEA reacted to much,” Jaishankar said. of sensationalist social media boundaries; things can be up-
the remarks of some celebrities He was responding to a hashtags and comments, espe- loaded from anywhere, adding
in relation to protest by farm- question about ‘toolkit’ case. cially when resorted to by ce- that investigation goes forward
er unions and noted that they The Ministry of External lebrities and others, is neither by locating their coordinates.
spoke “on matters on which Affairs had said in a statement accurate nor responsible,” the Continued on next page... >>

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