Updated Feb 15, 2021 · 09:56 pm A photo of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. | Anil Deshmukh/ Facebook
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday said that a preliminary police investigation by has revealed the role of a Bharatiya Janata Party Information Technology cell head and 12 other influencers in an inquiry related to Indian celebrities tweeting in support of the Centre’s handling of the farmers’ protests.
The home minister also clarified that he had not ordered an inquiry into the tweets of celebrities such as singer Lata Mangeshkar and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. “My statement regarding celebrity tweets on the issue of farmers’ protest has been twisted,” Deshmukh said. “I had ordered an inquiry into the BJP’s IT cell as it was likely to be involved in the case and not celebrities.”
Farm law protests: NIA summons farmers’ union leader for questioning on January 17
Baldev Singh Sirsa contended that the government was only trying to disrupt the farmers’ stir. Updated Jan 16, 2021 · 07:50 pm Farmers shout slogans during their ongoing agitation over the farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi on Friday. | Shahbaz Khan/ PTI
The National Investigating Agency has summoned Baldev Singh Sirsa, a farmers’ union head, for questioning on January 17, in connection with a case registered against a leader of the banned outfit Sikhs for Justice, reported
The Indian Express on Saturday. Sirsa is the president of Lok Bhalai Insaf Welfare Society, one of the unions protesting against the Centre’s farm laws.
Farm law protests: Over 100 British MPs urge Boris Johnson to take up matter with PM Modi
The letter said that people in UK were ‘horrified to see’ the use of water cannons and tear gas against protesting farmers. Jan 10, 2021 · 04:42 pm Police personnel use water canons on protesting farmers to stop them from marching to Delhi in Ambala on November 26. | PTI
Over 100 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom have written to the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to take up the farmers’ protests against India’s new agriculture laws with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The letter dated January 5, was released by UK’s Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Twitter on Friday. It said that people in the UK, especially with links to Punjab or India, were “horrified to see footage of water cannon, tear gas and brute force” against peacefully protesting farmers.