Greta Toolkit case: Ruling BJP and Oppn exchange barbs over Twitter

Bengaluru, Feb 16 : Even as the scenario post arrest of 22-year-old Bengaluru based climate change activist Disha Ravi is evolving elsewhere in the country, a full-blown twitter war has erupted in Karnataka between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress party.
Coming out in support of Ravi, Karnataka Congress launched #DishaRaviArrested Twitter campaign, as Leader of the Opposition Siddarmaiah said that her arrest has exposed the cracks in the Indian democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He wondered how can the act of supporting farmers be charged under sedition? “I strongly condemn this politically motivated act by Delhi Police,” he said in his tweet.
In his twitter, former minister Priyank Kharge charged that this country is becoming a joke. “Why is the establishment targeting kids? How come they have not bothered asking questions on how a news editor gets prior information on #PulwamaTerrorAttack,” he said.
AICC Tamil Nadu in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao in his tweet said, “Disha Ravi arrested. Two more activists in Mumbai fear arrest. Can’t believe what is happening to #India.” “Farmers are terrorists, journalists are anti-nationals, activists are seditious, Opposition are ‘desh drohis’ (anti-national) and students are traitors. Under BJP, India has changed,” he said.