‘Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’ actress Divyanka Tripathi has received backlash for her ‘insensitive’ and ‘inhumane’ tweet, amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The Television actress, on Tuesday, took to Twitter to share her views about Mumbai’s traffic. Divayaka thinks, now that the government has asked people to avoid going out and there’s less traffic, it’s an opportunity to complete the pending Metro work.
Divyanka took to the micro-blogging app and wrote, “With such less traffic in Mumbai, it seems like an opportunity to quickly complete Metro, bridges and smooth roads.”
@Divyanka_T pic.twitter.com/gp6PtSkzGg
— Vaishu_SGDT♥️ (@Vaishu4SG) March 17, 2020
Her tweet didn’t go well with Twitterati and they criticised the actress for her being insensitive towards the labourers. A user wrote, “As if the engineers & construction worker life not important .. such a vague & unrequired tweet at this moment.”
“Madam .this road and construction work can be done later it’s an emergency for everyone. .metro workers r also human,” wrote another.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to Divyanka’s tweet:
As if the engineers & construction worker life r not important .. such an vague & unrequired tweet at this moment
— siya mishra.. (@siya_siyamishra) March 17, 2020
Please delete this tweet. It looks insensitive. Metro workers labourers are also human beings.
— Tina Dwivedi (@TinaDwivedi1) March 17, 2020
Madam..lives of workers aren’t important? How they should come for work if entire India is asked to stay at home? They may be daily labour but yet govt won’t allow fathering for work on public projects right ?
— Chirayu R. Mankad (@cmankad) March 17, 2020
But DT those labour workers r humans too and roads n metros can be built later on when things get settled down..why to keep their lives at stake considering so many labour workers works.
— Zoha khan (@Zohakhan73) March 17, 2020
Insensitive ♀️. Delete this tweet
— Nausheen (@naush9198) March 17, 2020
You may volunteer to complete the construction work and serve the nation. Also, you may ask your followers to join you for the same.
— suresh palav (@sureshp007) March 17, 2020
Speaking of the pandemic, the number of positive coronavirus cases in India, rose to 125. The government has been advising people to stay home and avoid being in public. Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association also announced a halt on shootings from March 19 to March 31.