As anger grew in India on Thursday against some Western personalities expressing support for farmers on Delhi’s borders protesting three ne...
As anger grew in India on Thursday against some Western personalities expressing support for farmers on Delhi’s borders protesting three new agricuture laws, a group called the United Hindu Front organised a demonstration in New Delhi at which pictures of the celebrities were burnt and slogans denouncing them were chanted.
Their targets were pop star Rihanna, teenaged climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg, American lawyer Meena Harris (the niece of US Vice President Kamala Harris) and former porn star Mia Khalifa.
Tweets by these personalities supporting the right to peaceful protest have set off an unprecendent storm of controversy, even eliciting a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday warning against the “temptation of sensationalist social media hashtags and comments” about the new laws.
Shortly after, dozens of Indian sports people, actors and ruling party politicians took to Twitter to issue identikit messages aimed at countering the messages from Rihanna and the others.
The protest organised by the United Hindu Front was not large by Indian standards, but, as this video from the group’s Facebook page shows, the participants were enthusiastic.
They held up signs bearing the standard slogans chanted at Indian protests: “Singer Rihanna murdabad” (death to singer Rihanna), “No one is allowed to interfere in India’s internal affairs” and, curiously,...
