The Delhi Police has filed an FIR against Greta Thunberg and is finalizng charges against the Swedish climate activists who had tweeted in the favour of farmers protests in India.
According to media reports, the Delhi Police has registered a case against Thunberg under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including Section 153A(promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race) and Section 120B (criminal conspiracy). The Delhi Police is likely to hold a press conference shortly over the matter.
Greta has been accused of creating disharmony and for being a part of a larger conspiracy. The agenda was exposed after she accidentally shared the propaganda tool kit which included campaign strategy for holding protests across the world over India’s farm laws.
Thunberg and pop star Rihanna are among several people from the international community who have come out in support of the farmers' protest against the Centre's new agriculture laws.
Greta Thunberg tweeted in support of the farmers’ demonstration. In this tweet, she wrote, ‘We united towards the farmers’ movement in India’. Along with this, she shared a document in the second tweet, tagging a CNN news report headlined: “India cuts internet around New Delhi as protesting farmers clash with police” she also shared “a toolkit for those who want to help”.
“Here's a toolkit if you want to help,” tweeted Thunberg. The tool kit takes the user to a document which contains several strategies to support the protest.
In the document, various actions, including creating a Twitter storm and protesting outside Indian embassies and local government offices, were listed.
The document also stated that campaign material and social media template for the farmers’ agitation had been created by Poetic Justice Foundation.
Twitter erupted in India after the toolkit surfaced which included a document on details of January 26 protests and online and street protests. The document was restricted thereafter and the tweet was deleted, as per reports. This document is adding fuel to the view that there is an international conspiracy afoot to defame India and the Modi government over the farmer protests.
The document detailed how and where the protests should be done outside Indian embassies abroad, media houses, government buildings and even Adani-Ambani offices.
However, India's external affairs ministry criticized the remarks by Rihanna and Thunberg and said that facts on the issue must be ascertained before rushing to comment on it, and asserted that the "temptation" of sensationalist social media hashtags and views is "neither accurate nor responsible".
The Ministry of External Affairs also said some "vested interest groups" are trying to enforce their agenda on the protests and that a very small section of farmers in parts of the country has some reservations about the farm reforms which were passed by the Parliament after a full debate and discussion.
Several cricketers and Bollywood icons -- including Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn and Karan Johar -- also came in support of the central government and expressed their solidarity using the hashtags #IndiaAgainstPropaganda and #IndiaTogether.
However, soon after the Delhi Police registered an FIR against her, Thunberg in another Tweet said that she still stand with the farmers and "support their peaceful protest". "No amount of hate, threats or violations of human rights will ever change that," she tweeted.
The 'Delhi Chalo' farmers' protest at border points of New Delhi has entered the 71st day today. Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, are staging a sit-in protest along Delhi borders. The protest started on November 26. The farmers are demanding a complete rollback of the new farm reform laws and a guarantee on the Minimum Support Price (MSP) system being retained. Multiple rounds of talks between the Centre and the farmers’ union leaders have ended in a stalemate. Protesting farmers fear that the new laws will dismantle the MSP system and corporatise farming. The Supreme Court had earlier ordered a stay on the implementation of these contentious laws, hoping it will end the protest. The farm union leaders have also rejected Centre's proposal to suspend implementation of the laws for the 18 months. On January 26, the protest turned violent when some farmers deviated from a pre-decided route for their Republic Day tractor rally and clashed with police. Some protesters scaled the ramparts of the Red Fort. Several protestors and police personnel were injured in the ensuing clashes.
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