Sachin Tendulkar's poster smeared with oil by Youth Congress over ‘India Together’ Tweet

Former India cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's poster was smeared with black oil by members of Kerala's Youth Congress after he tweeted against meddling of foreign personalities in ongoing farmers' stir. batting maestro has been subject to extensive criticism by several factions for calling out propaganda by 'external forces'. Following Tendulkar, several members of cricket fraternity h tweeted against wing in of foreign personalities including pop-sensation Rihanna and environment activist Greta Thunberg. 

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On February 3, Tendulkar h tweeted that external forces can be spectators but t participants in India's internal affairs. His tweet came after Rihanna h shared a news story on ongoing farmers' agitation in India and tweeted, "Why aren't we talking about this?" What followed was several personalities including Greta Thunberg and US Vice President Kamala Harris' niece Meena Harris tweeting in support of agitating farmers. In response, several cricketers and Bollywood personalities h tweeted against meddling and called for unity in India, hoping for quick resolution of ongoing impasse between government and farmers. 

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'Insult to Bharat Ratna': RJD

Earlier in day, RJD leer Shivanand Tiwari also hit out at former India cricketer and said that government fielded people like Sachin Tendulkar to counter Greta Thunberg or Rihanna, ding that farmers do t even kw who se people are. Speaking to news ncy ANI, Tiwari said, "Farmers do t understand Twitter. This Twitter politics has started recently and everyone is doing it. Farmers living in vills have information about Twitter. y do t kw anything about Greta Thunberg or that singer (Rihanna) and against m, you have fielded Sachin Tendulkar."

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"He is a Bharat Ratna but he keeps doing vertisements. He is a model. This is an insult to Bharat Ratna to give such prestigious award to people like Sachin Tendulkar. By making se people speak, do y want that world turns a blind eye on issue? world is moving forward, such things won't work anymore," he ded.

MEA quashes foreign meddling

meddling of global personalities in India's internal matters forced Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to issue a statement and quash propaganda. In a strongly-worded statement, MEA me it clear that farm reforms were enacted by Parliament after a full debate and discussion. Maintaining that only a very small section of farmers have reservations about se laws, it mentioned that Centre has t only conducted 11 rounds of talks with farm unions but also offered to keep implementation of laws on hold.  MEA lamented that "vested groups" were trying to derail protests despite this scenario. To buttress its point, it highlighted violence that took place in national capital during farmers' tractor rally. 

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