Twitter removes Kangana Ranaut's tweets for 'violating company rules'

 

MUMBAI: Amid the Twitter on Thursday removed two tweets by Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for violating the company’s rules. It was not immediately clear what Ranaut had written in the now-deleted tweets.

 

 

“We have taken action on Tweets that were in violation of the Twitter rules in line with our range of enforcement options,” Twitter said in a statement.

 

 

The action comes two days after Ranaut, a vocal supporter of the Narendra Modi government, had responded to a tweet by Rihanna by calling the protesting farmers “terrorists” and the pop singer a "porn singer".

 

 

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Rihanna had shared a CNN article about the internet shutdowns in Delhi to suppress the farmer protests along with the caption "Why is nobody talking about this?"

 

 

Responding to this, Kangana wrote, "No one is talking about it because they are not farmers they are terrorists who are trying to divide India, so that China can take over our vulnerable broken nation and make it a Chinese colony much like USA... Sit down you fool, we are not selling our nation like you dummies."

 

 

It was not immediately clear what led Rihanna, whose songs have done well in India, to suddenly tweet on the subject.

 

 

A tractor rally by farmers last week in New Delhi turned violent. Police responded by shutting down the internet, digging ditches, driving nails into roads and topping barricades with razor wire to prevent farmers from entering the capital again.