“The government should have stuck to folks like Akshay Kumar. Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar are Bharat Ratnas,” Raj Thackeray told reporters.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday said the Central government should not have staked the reputations of such personalities like Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar by asking them to tweet in its support in the matter of the farmers’ agitation.
Referring to the row sparked by a bunch of tweets posted a few days ago by the cricketing and playback singing legends, along with several top personalities from various fields such as cricketer Virat Kohli, actor Akshay Kumar, and badminton star Saina Nehwal, Mr Thackeray stressed that the matter was something related to the government and not the nation as such.
Referring specifically to Mr Tendulkar and Ms Mangeshkar, the MNS chief told reporters: “These are all big personalities. Asking them to tweet, and use hashtags…the government should not have staked their reputations.”
“The matter is something related to the government and not the nation. It’s not as if the nation is facing danger from China or Pakistan,” he added.
“The government should have stuck to folks like Akshay Kumar. Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar are Bharat Ratnas. They are simple people. The government asked them to tweet, so they did that and now they are being trolled,” Mr Thackeray said.
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