
Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur was trolled for her social media posts propagating India-Pakistan peace. The 20-year old spelled out her views and this democratic country, so to say has condemned her posts and hounded her to the core.
To top it all, the girl was threatened with rape threats after she rolled out a video in which she held a placard saying “Pakistan did not kill my father. War did”. The video spread like forest fire.
A series of tweets followed, which slammed and trolled her reasons more than one. People from nowhere have emitted and taken out their decade-long frustrations on this intelligent yet feisty girl. She has suffered a lot and seems to have given up.
After having faced vitriol on Twitter and several rape threats, Kaur withdrew from her own movement and went back to her hometown, Jalandhar.
Kaur initiated a genuine drive to put forward her point very peacefully. She didn’t back anybody. She was just being a citizen of a democratic country.
The 20-year-old Lady Shri Ram College Gurmehar has been labeled as ‘anti-national’ by people who call themselves ‘patriots’.
Gurmehar tweeted, “ I have been throughout a lot and this is all my 20-year old self could take”.
Many celebrities and known people took to their twitter accounts to voice their opinions on the movement. There is a mixed bag of opinions which the agitation has sparked.
Have A Look:
Randeep Hooda
How’s DU violence connected 2 @mehartweets appeal
to get rid of hate? How’s @virendersehwag
witty FOE connected 2 supporting violence?
— Randeep
Hooda (@RandeepHooda) February 26, 2017
How’s DU violence connected 2 @mehartweets appeal
to get rid of hate? How’s @virendersehwag
witty FOE connected 2 supporting violence?
— Randeep
Hooda (@RandeepHooda) February 26, 2017
Kiren Rijiju
🙈🙈🙈 pic.twitter.com/SiH90ouWee— Yogeshwar Dutt (@DuttYogi) Fe
bruary 28, 2017
Javed Akhtar
Mr minister , you have condemned the left by falsely
accusing them for celebrating soldiers killing n not a word
about AVBP. Grossly biased
Madhur Bhandarkar
To Javed Akhtar’s tweet, 6th fail Madhur Bhandarkar replied in a retaliatory fashion, “Sir Lack of education has nothing to do with freedom of expression. I am a 6th fail student, still nobody can stop me from expressing my views.”
Sir Lack of education has nothing to do with freedom
of expression.I am a 6th fail student,still nobody can stop me
from expressing my views https://t.co/7rD9qfKu5f
&m
dash; Madhur Bhandarkar (@imbhandarkar) February 28, 2017
Amidst the chaos, Gurmehar’s mother spoke out: it was painful for her to see people slamming the daughter of an armyman who died fighting for the country and being described as anti-national but added that it takes huge courage to do something that her daughter did.
Sehwag
Bat me hai Dum !#BharatJaisiJagahNahi pic.twitter.com/BNaO1LBHLH
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 26, 2017
Gambhir
The freedom of expression is absolute and equal for all!
High time we learnt that and practised it daily in every sphere of life. pic.twitter.com/iMfIanQyh1— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) March 1, 2017

