Swara Bhasker Called 'Anti-Hindu' & 'Anti-National' For Joining Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra
Joining the bandwagon of celebrities including Pooja Bhatt, Sushant Singh, Rashmi Desai, Riya Sen and Amol Palekar, Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker also walked today with Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ujjain.
Joining the bandwagon of celebrities including Pooja Bhatt, Sushant Singh, Rashmi Desai, Riya Sen and Amol Palekar, Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker also walked today with Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo Yatra in Ujjain.
?? ???????? ????????? @ReallySwara #BharatJodoYatra ?? ?????? ????
¡ª Congress (@INCIndia) December 1, 2022
???? ?? ?? ???? ?? ???????? ?? ?? ?????? ?? ??? ??? ???? ??? pic.twitter.com/Ww5lEZnDys
This happened amid the BJP alleging that the actors are paid to walk with Rahul Gandhi.
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Maharashtra, Nitesh Rane has made this claim after he tweeted a purported mobile phone conversation.
"So the Rahul Gandhi Yatra is stage-managed. This is proof of how actors are being paid to come and walk with him. Sab Golmaal hai bhai!", he tweeted.
Other than refurbishing Rahul Gandhi¡¯s credential as a leader, all that his Yatra has achieved is enable rise of a self serving coterie around him, which is doing more harm by this kind of paid PR.
¡ª Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) November 22, 2022
But who are these people willing to associate with Rahul even for some money? ??¡á? https://t.co/5eRSMpAUso
Swara Bhasker who had earlier compared Bollywood with Rahul Gandhi calling him "perfectly intelligent and articulate man" extended support to the yatra. She had also lauded Rahul Gandhi's efforts despite his electoral defeats.
Swara Bhasker joins Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra
Credit where due.. Despite electoral defeats, trolling, personal attacks & constant critique abt being ineffective, @RahulGandhi has neither succumbed to communal rhetoric nor sensationalist politics. Given the situation of this country effort like @bharatjodo is commendable! ?? pic.twitter.com/hncg1UuiCj
¡ª Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) October 28, 2022
However, Swara Bhasker has become a target of trolls. From being called "anti-hindu" to "anti-national", here's what people are saying.
Openly joins political campaigns.
¡ª THE SKIN DOCTOR (@theskindoctor13) December 1, 2022
Regularly tweets in support of Rahul Gandhi.
Campaigns for politicians in elections (Digvijaya Singh, Kanhaiya, Atishi, Raghav Chadha, etc)
and then calls herself independent civil society dissent voice and common non left people, Bhakts.
Anti nationals are not part of our society . https://t.co/ZAaW0jNuJm
¡ª virendra kumar (@colvirendra1234) December 1, 2022
Same energy... https://t.co/Zi2uXwSuCS pic.twitter.com/9dauCUJZOt
¡ª Saffronista ? (@Kaalbhairavee) December 1, 2022
Same IQ people???¡á? https://t.co/gAvzdjoqRO
¡ª Sir Godfather Akatsuki (@_know_pain_) December 1, 2022
I lost you at Prasiddh https://t.co/3IpbDkku0b
¡ª Khalnayak (@kooshals) December 1, 2022
You should give it up for Congress. They ensure that all the jokers who are anti-H!ndu take part in this yatra. Won¡¯t be surprised if they next include terrorist sympathisers https://t.co/rYSJBkKhhA
¡ª Charan ?? (@CharanProNamo) December 1, 2022
Bunch of losers and failures all in one frame https://t.co/GIsybNJ6c4
¡ª shail (@shail25882954) December 1, 2022
'Prasidh' Even Swara must be thinking https://t.co/vELbFSmtPk pic.twitter.com/UGxxUvCsAZ
¡ª Angad Singh Khanna (@AngadSKhanna1) December 1, 2022
You should give it up for Congress. They ensure that all the jokers who are anti-H!ndu take part in this yatra. Won¡¯t be surprised if they next include terrorist sympathisers https://t.co/rYSJBkKhhA
¡ª Charan ?? (@CharanProNamo) December 1, 2022
Kya yeh Bharat Jodo yatra will ensure that Rahul will become PM in 2024? He will be 54 years old https://t.co/3U2eUrNhyq
¡ª PARAG AGASHE ?? (@Deshihindustani) December 1, 2022
Amit Malviya, who is in charge of BJP's national information and technology department had called this an alleged "paid PR".
He questioned, "Other than refurbishing Rahul Gandhi's credential as a leader, all that his yatra has achieved is enable the rise of a self-serving coterie around him, which is doing more harm by this kind of paid PR. But who are these people willing to associate with Rahul even for some money?."
Congress on the other hand called these claims bogus.
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Sachin Sawant said, "Such bogus WhatsApp images are being shown as proof. No name, no numbers. It is BJP that masters the art of arm-twisting celebrities to portray artificial support for them, not Congress."
"Don't we remember tweets of celebrities on petrol and diesel rates during UPA government and during farmers' protests? Everyone knows that it takes courage to stand against autocratic and divisive agenda of BJP. Those who have joined Bharat Jodo Yatra are standing for the cause and for our nation," he tweeted.
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