'There was Rosa Parks and now there is Richa Bharti': Twitterati praise Hindu girl who refused to distribute Qurans
On Tuesday, Twitterati stood up in support of Richa Bharti, a Ranchi college student who had been arrested for a Facebook status.
On Tuesday, Twitterati stood up in support of Richa Bharti, a Ranchi college student who had been arrested for a Facebook status.
Bharti had been released on a bail on a Rs 14,000 and had been asked by the judge to distribute 5 Qurans to various organisations.
Support poured in for Richa Bharti on Twitter with several netizens offering to help.
Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy said he had requested his friend and minister in Saryu Rai to look into the matter.
JNU Professor and author Anand Ranganathan called it shocking and wondered how the media would’ve reacted if a ‘Muslim had been ordered to distribute the Gita as a condition for bail’
BJP Delhi spokesperson Tajinder Singh Bagga asked if anyone had a contact number and offered to help her file a petition in the Supreme Court.
Incidentally, a BJP youth leader from Bengal, Priyanka Sharma had been arrested for sharing a meme on Mamata Banerjee and had moved SC after being arrested.
Advocate Ishkaran Singh Bhandari called her a courageous girl and said adverse situations led to courage, comparing her to African-American activist Rosa Parks who refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama and is known as the ‘first lady of civil rights’.
Author Shefali Vaidya wondered how many ‘liberal Muslims’ would come out to defend Bharti and said they’d be ‘frothing at the mouth’ of TikTok star Faisu had been asked to distribute the Gita.
Rebel AAP MLA Kapil Mishra wondered how a secular court could ask someone to distribute copies of Quran, that too on condition of bail.