The
Maharashtra
government
on
Monday
sought
to
clear
the
air
over
the
state's
inquiry
into
the
tweets
by
Sachin
Tendulkar,
Lata
Mangeshkar
and
others
over
farmers
protest.
Home
minister
Anil
Deshmukh
told
reporters
that
his
recent
remark
on
the
celebrity
tweets
row
were
distorted.
He
reiterated
that
the
government
was
only
'probing
the
BJP
IT
cell.'
Anil
Deshmukh
said,
“My
earlier
statement
regarding
the
tweets
by
celebrities
was
presented
in
a
distorted
manner.
I
never
meant
that
the
inquiry
was
going
to
be
of
celebrities.
Lata
Mangeshkar
is
godlike
for
us.
And
every
countryman
respects
Sachin
Tendulkar.
There
is
no
question
of
their
inquiry.”
He
went
on
to
add,
"What
I
had
meant
was
that
inquiry
will
be
done
into
the
role
of
the
BJP
IT
cell
and
whether
they
had
provided
the
script
for
the
tweets
for
the
celebrities." Deshmukh
then
shared
that
the
preliminary
inquiry
has
brought
to
fore
the
"names
of
BJP
IT
cell
head
and
twelve
influencers
and
further
probe
is
on
in
the
matter.”
My
statement
was
distorted.
I
said
BJP's
IT
cell
should
be
investigated,BJP's
IT
cell
chief&names
of
12
influencers
have
come
out
in
probe:Maharashtra
Home
Min
Anil
Deshmukh
on
his
earlier
statement
on
probe
in
tweets
of
celebrities
in
response
to
int'l
celebrities
over
farm
laws
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For
the
unversed,
the
Uddhav
Thackeray-led
Maha
Vikas
Aghadi
government
in
Maharashtra
had
launched
an
investigation
into
the
tweets
shared
by
celebrities
like
Akshay
Kumar,
Ajay
Devgn,
Lata
Mangeshkar,
Sachin
Tendulkar
and
others.
These
tweets
were
shared
after
American
pop
star
Rihanna
and
climate
activist
Greta
Thunberg
backed
the
farmers'
agitation.
They
used
the
hashtags,
#IndiaTogether
and
#IndiaAgainstPropaganda