Badminton player and Olympic athlete Saina Nehwal did what celebrities are not supposed to do if they want to ‘liberal’ credentials. She appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Ramlila Maidan speech in Delhi today and called it ‘thought provoking’.
https://twitter.com/NSaina/status/1208682856131612672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Sacrilege!
No sooner did she tweet, trolls masquerading as ‘liberals’ descended upon her timeline to call her a BJP IT cell member.
https://twitter.com/zoo_bear/status/1208707506710540290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/savukku/status/1208696158492622849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1208700006875779074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And then of course, everyone became orthopaedic experts and questioned her future as an athlete ‘without a spine’.
https://twitter.com/Amairah_8/status/1208693296689635330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Sardarism/status/1208715376965476354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/Advaidism/status/1208712017516744705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/HavaldarShinde/status/1208707257049001985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Of course, unless you toe the ‘secular-liberal’ line, you are a disgrace.
https://twitter.com/jamewils/status/1208691337425383424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Trolls have now found a new way to shame someone who supports PM Modi. Within minutes of Nehwal’s tweet, a few random accounts, presumably bots, copy-pasted her tweet. The trolls invoked the ACP Pradyuman inside them and accused her of being part of “BJP IT Cell”.
https://twitter.com/HavaldarShinde/status/1208708419550666752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/jamewils/status/1208694974994243585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Senior Congress leaders also joined in in trolling Nehwal.
https://twitter.com/Pawankhera/status/1208719437487951872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
If you are a celebrity in India, it is like a crime to not toe the line of the ‘secular-liberal’ mafia.