Bollywood actors Randeep Hooda and Dia Mirza got involved in an argument on Twitter over the killing of a tigress in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit. As the actress shared a quote from a news story, the former felt that she made a ‘sweeping accusation’ against the Forest Department. Dia then clarifies as she stated that it was just a quote from a story. Randeep, however, stated that it was wrong to ‘'make villains’ of the Forest Department on hearsay.
For the unversed, a video of villagers in Pilibhit hitting a six-year-old tigress with sticks went viral recently. As per reports, the tigress succumbed to injuries as the villagers even attacked the Forest Department officials and did not allow them to take the tigress to the hospital. While a First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against the villagers, a magisterial inquiry will be conducted on the efforts taken by the forest officials in the situation.
On this Dia quoted a story and tweeted, "The tigress could have been rescued and given timely medical aid as the forest officials had reached the spot. But their inability to rescue the injured big cat in a span of over nine hours undoubtedly reflects their inability in protecting wildlife in adverse situations.”
Randeep could not help but reply to Dia's tweet and say, "With all due respect I disagree with this sweeping accusation deespeak Forest dept is capable and doing good work. She was beyond rescue when found as I talked with experts. Even staff got injured in process. It’s the forest dept thats keeping our wildlife alive not just NGOs"
With all due respect I disagree with this sweeping accusation @deespeak Forest dept is capable and doing good work. She was beyond rescue when found as I talked with experts. Even staff got injured in process. It’s the forest dept thats keeping our wildlife alive not just NGOs https://t.co/03roi3awf2
— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) July 27, 2019
Dia then tweeted, "Randeep, please know that this is a quote from the article attached clearly denoted by the inverted commas. I have always, and will always champion the cause of Forest Rangers and officials. They work with very frugal means and are brave, resilient, rakshaks of our lives."
On this, Randeep replied, "Why share that particular quote only from the whole article then ?"
Because this is also a stark reality that confronts us. With human animal conflict on the rise our foresters need more to handle these situations. They have been heinous attacks made on our foresters as well. @anishandheria @vivek4wild @BittuSahgal @ParveenKaswan https://t.co/X5HHGrJS97
— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) July 27, 2019
When he once again asked why he shared the particular quote, she replied, “Because this is also a stark reality that confronts us. With human animal conflict on the rise our foresters need more to handle these situations. They have been heinous attacks made on our foresters as well.”
Randeep was still not pleased, and replied, “In other words you do believe what you had picked to quote dear @deespeak let’s not make villains out of the forest department on hearsay and undermine their relentless hard work while going about town praising other players for theirs..the aim is the same, let’s work together.”
In other words you do believe what you had picked to quote dear @deespeak let’s not make villains out of the forest department on hearsay and undermine their relentless hard work while going about town praising other players for theirs..the aim is the same, let’s work together https://t.co/xuKTYbBATY
— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) July 27, 2019
(Source: Twitter)
