Divyanka Tripathi was trolled after she tweeted about empty Mumbai roads amid COVID-19 pandemic.
Television actress
Divyanka Tripathi was quick to apologise after she was slammed for an
'insensitive' tweet. In a video shared on Twitter, the actress mentioned the
empty roads in Mumbai amidst the coronavirus outbreak and hoped that
construction work will be completed by the time threat is gone. Divyanka
wrote, ''With such less traffic in Mumbai, it seems like an opportunity to
quickly complete metro, bridges and smooth roads."
Soon, netizens
started criticising her. ''As if the engineers and construction workers lives
aren't important. Such a vague and unrequired tweet at this moment,'' a user
wrote.
''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 ?,'' wrote another.
''Please delete this
tweet. It looks insensitive. Metro workers labourers are also human beings,''
read another comment.
Reacting to one of
the offended followers, the actress wrote, ''My apologies. Point
taken." She not only deleted her tweet but went on to write, ''We all are
humans and susceptible to errors. In this volatile and violent social media
world, important question is: If someone's capable of realizing and
apologizing... are you capable of forgiving and moving on?"
She added:
"Should everything be news and point of argument? Where's humanity there?"
Earlier Divyanka
shared a photo with her husband Vivek Dahiya and wrote ''Love in the time of
corona''.
Divyanka tied the
knot with her Yeh Hai Mohabbatein co-star Vivek Dahiya in 2016. The couple then
won a dance reality TV show Nach Baliye 8 in 2017. She currently features on
Yeh Hai Chahatein, a spin-off of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.