After a Canada-based organisation Poetic Justice Basis (PJF) got here into the sunshine with stories of its alleged involvement in making a ‘toolkit’ which was tweeted by international environmentalist Greta Thunberg, it on Saturday denied paying any cash to pop star Rihanna for her submit supporting the farmers’ protest in India.
The organisation, in a press launch on its web site, mentioned it didn’t “coordinate Rihanna, Greta Thunberg or any variety of particular celebrities to tweet concerning the farmers’ protest”.
“We didn’t pay anybody to tweet — and positively didn’t pay anybody $2.5m to take action. Nonetheless, we did usually encourage all the world to share this concern. Via the worldwide collective of organizers we inspired the world to concentrate and amplify this message,” PJF mentioned.
The assertion was signed by Mo Dhaliwal and Anita Lal, director of the Canada-based World Sikh Organisation, and co-founder of PJF. Dhaliwal is the founding father of PJF and is among the Administrators of the PR agency Skyrocket which reportedly paid cash to Rihanna for her tweet.
“It’s our hope that Indian media and authorities consideration will make investments their time and vital sources to the actual problems with the second: stopping the violences being dedicated towards the farmers and their supporters who’re agitating for his or her rights (sic),” the assertion added.
In response to a earlier report by The Print, PJF performed a “important function” in “beginning a world marketing campaign”, with backing from “political leaders and activists based mostly out of Canada”.
The PJF, which describes itself as an organisation that “challenges buildings of oppression and discrimination by way of intersectional grassroots advocacy”, claims on its web site that “at the moment we’re most actively concerned within the “#FarmersProtest”.
After Rihanna’s tweet snowballed right into a mass motion in assist of the protesting farmers, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs put out a press release saying that some “vested curiosity teams” try to implement their agenda on the protests and {that a} very small part of farmers in components of the nation has some reservations concerning the farm reforms which had been handed by the Parliament after a full debate and dialogue.