As Rihanna retweeted the farmers protest following that the activist Greta Thunberg also took matters into her own hands and tweeted about it.
After pop music star Rihanna, Swedish weather activist Greta Thunberg took to Twitter to support the ongoing exploitation of farmers in India. The 18-year-old environmental activist made a name for herself with her organization 'Friday of tomorrow' in 2018.
On Twitter on Tuesday, Greta Thunberg, while posting a news article about the Internet ban in Delhi, said, "We stand in solidarity with #FarmersProtest in India."
Following her call for 'Tomorrow Friday' to cancel a global climate change campaign, Greta Thunberg was invited to open the 2019 World Meteorological Conference. She even addressed EU legislators at the Environmental Council of the European Parliament in Brussels in March. of 2020.
The tweet came hours after pop star Rihanna told the same story describing the Internet ban in Delhi due to farmers' protests and said in a tweet, "why don't we talk about this?! #FarmersProtest."
Thunberg, who was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, has publicly opposed the NEET and JEE exams in 2020. On Twitter in September last year, Greta Thunberg had said, "It is very wrong for Indian students to be asked to sit for national exams during the Covid-19 epidemic and while millions have also been hit by severe floods. I stand by their call to #PostponeJEE_NEETinCOVID."
Farmers, mainly in Punjab, Haryana and west of Uttar Pradesh had been camping on the Delhi border for more than two months demanding the repeal of three new farm rules. The riots took place in a state of disarray when a group of protesters from the peak of the Republic Day Tractor Parade of farmers and Delhi police got into a chaotic fight.
The Indian government has promised to impose farm rules for a period of 12-18 months, a commitment made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself.
Speaking to Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar said the Center was ready to discuss farm rules inside and outside Parliament.
Despite ten negotiations between them, the Government of India and a 40-year-old farmers' union failed to reach an agreement. While the government has promised to discuss three terms of dispute, farmers' leaders are adamant that they want a complete repeal of the law and official guarantees of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their product.
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