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How Rihanna’s Single Tweet Exposed a Conspiracy in the Largest Democracy
Rihanna’s tweet made a lot of people uncomfortable, and they started speaking up for the first ever time!
That’s what Rihanna tweeted. It is no big deal. Celebrities have always raised their voices against such issues that exploit the common people. This should not have created a huge blow out, except it did. A lot of people became uncomfortable in one of the largest democracies in the world. To give you all more context- farmers from the northern part of India have been conducting protests against the government for several weeks now. They wanted the Narendra Modi lead government to withdraw the new farm laws that it has passed in the parliament. The government has been denying the voices of thousands of farmers, leading to violent outbursts during the protests.
Like every other situation, people took sides in India. Indian youths have been utilizing the power of social media to expose the “religious” agendas of the Modi government. One of the biggest upsets before the farm laws was the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019, which was heavily discriminative to the minority Muslims of the nation. The Modi government did not budge against the protests, and more things kept happening, one after the other.
