As the anti-China sentiment has been on the rise in India since last week after the fatal clash between India-China in Galwan valley in which at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed. Indians have started trending boycott Chinese products on Social Media and boycott China trend is gaining momentum.
Has former Congress president Rahul Gandhi already ditched iPhone?
As we all are curious to know how after May 30 Congress leader has only used Twitter Web app to tweet and we can’t get more to see content posted on his Twitter account from iPhone.
On May 30, Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi posted a video of a woman who was being brutally beaten up. The video was posted on Twitter from iPhone, it was the last time when he posted from ‘Twitter for iPhone’.
The violence in this video is not isolated. It’s an expression of what many Indian women have always faced. The violence comes in many forms & is sustained by a culture that glorifies symbols of womanhood while simultaneously treating women with total contempt & disrespect. pic.twitter.com/5KXrJvGPDj
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 30, 2020
On June 2, Gandhi posted three articles about the economy, Nisarg cyclone and the unemployment, all of them were posted from ‘Twitter Web App’.
चक्रवाती तूफान निसर्ग कल महाराष्ट्र और गुजरात पहुँच रहा है। इस कठिन समय में, पूरा देश आपके साथ खड़ा है। अपना ख़्याल रखें।
सतर्क रहें, सुरक्षित रहें।https://t.co/3ypjQ1lRHn
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 2, 2020
Thereafter, he has not posted from iPhone and has rather choose Twitter Web App and this surely is indicating that Congress leader has ditched iPhone quietly .
People in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad hurled Chinese TV sets down their balconies, while traders in the capital, Delhi, protested by burning Chinese goods.
A central minister called for a boycott of restaurants selling “Chinese food” – an Indianised version of Chinese cuisine that is hugely popular; an opposition leader was seen clambering atop a JCB machine to blacken a billboard of Chinese smartphone maker Oppo; a group of eager protesters went viral after burning an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, mistaking him for Chinese President, Xi Jinping.
Xiaomi has put up huge banners screaming ‘Made in India’ outside its Mi-Store showrooms in Kolkata, aimed apparently at countering the growing chorus to boycott Chinese products.
Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in fighting at a disputed border site in the Himalayan Galwan Valley, which has created a prompt rage in Indian against China and the result has been out as to boycott its products.