On Tuesday, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi announced a nationwide 21-day lockdown since April 25 amid the Coronavirus outbreak. He requested the nation to stay at home while announcing the lockdown earlier this week in order to break the chain of the pandemic. While many have been suffering due to the lockdown, the daily wage workers and their families are affected the most.
Maharashtra is one of the worst affected states in India with more than 120 cases. And Pune, like Mumbai, has witnessed more Coronavirus patients in the state to date. And to help the daily wage workers in the city, the former India skipper MS Dhoni has decided to donate ₹1 lakh via crowdfunding website Ketto to the Mukul Madhav Foundation, a public charitable trust in Pune.
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The donations made to this website will be used to provide daily grocery essentials to the families of the daily wage workers in the city. MS Dhoni’s wife Sakshi shared the link of the same on her Instagram story and also urged people to come forward and donate as much as possible. The fundraiser has set a goal of achieving ₹12.5 lakh for the noble cause and the 38-year-old is the highest donor in the list at the moment.
In fact, after knowing about MS Dhoni’s donation, many people have come forward and donated and so far, more than ₹12 lakh have been raised.
However, a number of fans are not at all happy with MS Dhoni’s gesture because of the amount he has donated. As soon as the news of MS Dhoni’s donation became public, the fans came out in large numbers to criticize the legendary cricketer for his miserly attitude.
Here are some of the reactions:
https://twitter.com/Vishj05/status/1243228698787999746
https://twitter.com/swapnilbajpai82/status/1243368344377384960
Dhoni net worth is 800 crore but donated a very very huge amount of 1 lakh rupees.
They say the more money u have the more kanjoos you become. It's true. Salute the south Indian heroes. #PawanKalyan #ReliefPackage #CoronavirusOutbreak #RamCharan #Prabhas #PawanKalyanForPeople— Thebeeinghuman (@thebeeinghuman) March 27, 2020
Dhoni Donates to Help 100 Poor Families During COVID-19 Lockdown.
Net worth – 800 crore💰💰
Donation – 1 lakhThis is meant to support 100 families for 14 days. 🤔
100 x 14 x 3 meals = 4200 meals. 1,00,000 / 4200 = 23 bucks per meal. 😱😱
Well done MSD. 👍👍
— Knotty Commander (@knottycommander) March 27, 2020
Roger Federer donates 1 million swizz francs for swizz people and Dhoni donates 1 lakh rupees for indian in this pandemic. @BCCI @msdhoni
— नरेंद्रपाल सिंह राठौड़ ( मेड़तिया ) (@rathorenp) March 26, 2020
A class 12 student donates 2.5 lakhs whereas one of India's richest cricketers MS Dhoni pledges 1 lakh rupees to poor families…!#coronavirusindiahttps://t.co/4YiSamQV2G https://t.co/vMg7XOajlA
— Ahmed | أحمد (@Ahmedsaidthat) March 27, 2020
Thank you mam for the donation ♥️🥰😘🌹 your moral net worth is more than MS Dhoni who is worth 800 crores still donated 1 lakh rupees.
Hope Fake nationalist @akshaykumar @SrBachchan will be ashamed watching you donate @Akkistaan @AmitabhBachan https://t.co/AL13qkmvI7
— Surender Moti'Xi (@SurenderMotiXi) March 27, 2020
MS Dhoni should be told not to insult the feeling/concept of Charity or Donation. somebody should do a crowdfunding and return his 1 Lakh with interest… https://t.co/w8RJBDzDZ9
— IIIIIIIIIll (@_NairFYI) March 26, 2020
Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus positive patients in India went past 700 with 17 people losing their lives on Thursday, as per the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
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The entire world is slowly moving towards a lockdown due to the scare of the ever-escalating situation concerning the World Health Organisation-recognized pandemic that is the Coronavirus. Everything- schools, colleges, airports, railway stations, gyms, sporting events, movies, offices- have been put under lockdown as the world continues to self-isolate in order to control the pandemic.
