Veteran actor Dharmendra on Friday urged the central government to find a solution to farmers’ protests over the farm laws, days after he deleted a similar post on Twitter.
The 85-year-old shared a picture of himself and captioned it as, “I am extremely in pain to see the suffering of my farmer brothers. Government should do something fast.”
This comes a week after the actor had urged centre to resolve the protests soon, citing the growing number of coronavirus cases in Delhi.
“I request the government… please quickly find a solution the farmers’ problems… the number of corona cases are on a rise in Delhi… it is painful,” Dharmendra had written in a post.
However, the veteran actor soon deleted the post, without any explanation.
The next day, a user posted the screenshot of the tweet, wondering what prompted the actor to delete it.
Punjabi icon @aapkadharam paaji had tweeted this 13 hours ago. But later deleted it.
Kuchh to majburiyan rahi hongi.. yun koi bewafa nahin hota. ? pic.twitter.com/RRA0a69AM8
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) December 4, 2020
Dharmendra said, “I deleted the tweet because I felt saddened by comments like these. You can abuse me to your heart’s content, I am happy that you are happy. Yes, I am sad for my farmer brothers.”
The “Apne” actor further said, “The government should find a solution fast, nobody is listening to us.”
When another user claimed that he must have deleted the post on the insistence of his son, actor and BJP MP from Gurdaspur Sunny Deol, Dharmendra replied, “I won’t say anything about your mentality.”
Aapne sunny ke phone karne pe delete kiya tha na.
Thodi toh himmat rakhiye or kisano ke saath khade raho— Avi Choudhary (@Choudharydws) December 4, 2020
Thousands of farmers have gathered at Delhi’s gateways to demand a repeal of the Centre’s three new farm laws.
The protesting farmers mainly from Punjab and Haryana as well as Uttar Pradesh are worried the new laws will eliminate the safety cushion of a Minimum Support Price (MSP) and procurement system, while rendering ineffective the mandi system that ensures earnings for various stakeholders in the farm sector.
Meanwhile, the government has been in talks with farmer leaders to resolve the issue.
Source: Free Press Journal
