On Wednesday, Swedish climate and environment activist Greta Thunberg took her official Twitter handle to show her support for protesting farmers, she wrote, “We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.” Greta also shared a news article in the same tweet mentioning, “India cuts internet around New Delhi as protesting farmers clash with police,” by CNN.
We stand in solidarity with the #FarmersProtest in India.
https://t.co/tqvR0oHgo0— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) February 2, 2021
In response, Indian actress Kangana Ranaut wrote on her official Twitter handle, “No fancy activists will talk about genuine environmentalist our own grandma … but they will definitely promote dumb and a spoilt brat @GretaThunberg who is being used by entire left lobby and in return she gets to skip her education and school.”
https://twitter.com/KanganaTeam/status/1356833041575014400
By ‘grandma,’ Kangana refers to the 105 years old R Pappammal, an organic farmer from Coimbatore, who was honoured with the Padma Shri for agriculture this year.