Tanzila Anis, now an ex-employee of Gaana, the music streaming platform. A day after her disgusting comment on Twitter about Rinku Sharma’s murder, Gaana has now sacked their employee Tanzila Anis. She tweeted, ‘Bajrang Dal Activist. That’s it, that’s the tweet.’
Screenshots of her tweets went viral with the BoycottGaana hashtag earlier days, hours after this, Gaana issued a statement saying ‘necessary action’ will be taken at the earliest, over the matter.
A criminal complaint against Tanzila Anis was filed by Chandigarh BJP and called Gaana to sack her.
The music streaming platform tweeted, ‘Gaana respects all religions and communities of India. With regards to the social media posts by a recently joined employee of Gaana, these posts do not represent our values. She is no longer employed by the company. We will continue to bring music to our country.’
About the Rinku Sharma murder case:
A 25-year-old man, Rinku Sharma murdered in Delhi’s Mangolpuri area. He reportedly got into a scuffle with the four accused at a birthday party on Wednesday night, who later went into his house and stabbed him with a knife. All four accused Zahid, Danish, Mehtab, and Islam were arrested on Thursday.
Tanzila Anis on her tweet:
Following the backlash for her tweet, Tanzila Anis said that she was not aware that a Bajrang Dal activist had been killed and her tweet only suggests that members of the ‘extremist’ organization Bajrang Dal cannot be called an ‘activist’.
