Thousands of farmers protesting the Centre’s new agriculture laws stayed place for the third consecutive day on Saturday amid heavy police presence even immediately after getting provided a north Delhi ground to hold peaceful demonstrations.
Numbers swelled as farmers gathered there have been joined by additional counterparts from Punjab and Haryana and they refused to move towards the Sant Nirankari Ground, a single of the largest in the national capital.
Weighing in on the protests, actress Kangana Ranaut took to Twitter and shared a tweet featuring the renowned ‘Shaheen Bagh Dadi’.
For these unversed, Shaheen Bagh Dadi is an 82-year-old Bilkis Bano who became the face of the CAA-NRC protests. The octogenarian served as an inspiration to scores of females and was also featured on BBC’s ‘100 Women of 2020’
A Twitter user alleged that Dadi was also present at the farmers’ protests, accusing that she was readily available for employ on a per day basis.
Kangana quote-tweeted the exact same and wrote, “Ha ha ha she is the same dadi who featured in Time magazine for being the most powerful Indian…. And she is available in 100 rupees. Pakistani jurno’s have hijacked international PR for India in an embarrassing way. We need our own people to speak for us internationally.”