Mumbai: After PM Narendra Modi urged people asked the citizens to switch off lights for nine minutes and light candles and diyas on April 5 at 9pm, Taapsee Pannu expressed her excitement. Noticing her response, Kangana Ranaut’s sister Rangoli Chandel passed a vile comment, stated her as a “B grade mimicry actor”.
She took to her twitter handle and wrote, “New task is here! Yay yay yayy!!!.” Her tweet received more than 1.3K replies in an hour.
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New task is here ! Yay yay yayy !!!
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) April 3, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">New task is here ! Yay yay yayy !!!
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) April 3, 2020New task is here ! Yay yay yayy !!!
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) April 3, 2020
Rangoli shared Taapsee’s tweet on her Twitter handle and wrote, “B grade mimicry actors ki bhi jali... bekar he toh ho ek task dediya toh .... sooj gayi?”
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B grade mimicry actors ki bhi jali... bekar he toh ho ek task dediya toh .... sooj gayi? https://t.co/BGdgmGewXB
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) April 3, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">B grade mimicry actors ki bhi jali... bekar he toh ho ek task dediya toh .... sooj gayi? https://t.co/BGdgmGewXB
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) April 3, 2020B grade mimicry actors ki bhi jali... bekar he toh ho ek task dediya toh .... sooj gayi? https://t.co/BGdgmGewXB
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) April 3, 2020
Meanwhile, Rangoli welcomed PM's new initiative. “Lighting Diyas is a very good gesture, diya creates an ethereal aura which is very calming and effective, to show each other our support let’s do this, I love how @narendramodi ji also focuses on our emotional needs and tries to heal us in every way .... Jai Shri Ram,” she tweeted.
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Lighting Diyas is a very good gesture, diya creates an ethereal aura which is very calming and effective, to show each other our support let’s do this, I love how @narendramodi ji also focuses on our emotional needs and tries to heal us in every way .... Jai Shri Ram...
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) April 3, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Lighting Diyas is a very good gesture, diya creates an ethereal aura which is very calming and effective, to show each other our support let’s do this, I love how @narendramodi ji also focuses on our emotional needs and tries to heal us in every way .... Jai Shri Ram...
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) April 3, 2020Lighting Diyas is a very good gesture, diya creates an ethereal aura which is very calming and effective, to show each other our support let’s do this, I love how @narendramodi ji also focuses on our emotional needs and tries to heal us in every way .... Jai Shri Ram...
— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) April 3, 2020
Many B-town celebs including Arjun Kapoor, Hema Malini among others expressed solidarity with the Prime Minister’s unique exercise aimed to drive away darkness by lighting lamps, instilling positivity in the country.
READ |Bollywood supports PM's unique exercise of lighting lamps
“Honorable PM Shri @narendramodi ji has urged all of us to turn off our lights and light candles or diyas or even phone torches on 5th April at 9 pm for 9 minutes to stand united together in the fight against #Coronavirus. #9baje9minute," Arjun tweeted.
Hema tweeted, “Let us take an oath to be with our PM @narendramodi in this long & arduous war against the deadly Coronavirus. This is the time to come together & show our solidarity as one & help our govt in controlling COVID. We will carry out his request on Apr 5. Are you all in agreement.”
In his address to the nation on March 24, the Prime Minister had announced a 21-day lockdown in the country to contain the spread of novel coronavirus, which has infected over 2,000 people in the country.
