Renowned Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee penned an open letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after the food delivery app Swiggy failed to deliver his food after confirming the order. Popularly known as Bumba Da, the actor requested the PM and CM to intervene to resolve the issue. He cited the incident that took place on November 3, 2021.
In his open letter, Prosenjit wrote, "Respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Respected Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Festive greetings. Hope you are keeping well. I want to draw your attention to an issue I have recently faced. On 3rd November, I placed an order on food delivery app Swiggy. After some time, the status of the order changed to delivered but I never received the food. After raising the issue with Swiggy, they refunded me the money since the order was prepaid."
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He added, "However, I wanted to draw your attention because I feel anybody can face this issue. What if someone relies on a food app to get food delivered for their guests and the food never arrives? What if someone is depending on these food apps for their dinner? Will they stay hungry? There can be many such situations. Thus, I felt it was necessary to talk about it. Regards, Prosenjit Chatterjee."
Read his tweet here:
Respected PM @narendramodi and Respected CM @MamataOfficial, your kind attention please. pic.twitter.com/fry7F6wYl7
— Prosenjit Chatterjee (@prosenjitbumba) November 6, 2021
Soon after the tweet went viral, a section of netizens took a dig at Prosenjit for tagging PM Modi and CM Banerjee for an issue related to the food delivery app. One user sarcastically tweeted, "What an important issue to raise with the PM and CM," whereas the other said it was a "National Emergency".
What an important issue to raise with the PM and CM https://t.co/6CaB7FTNCy
— Anubrata Choudhury (@anubratach) November 6, 2021
National emergency https://t.co/ixV49fJjAl
— Karan (@Confused_Hypo) November 6, 2021
I want this confidence in life https://t.co/muLiKxfV9f
— Atif Yamin (@atifyamin_) November 6, 2021
Dear @prosenjitbumba, For such trivial issues, tagging and writing letter to CM & PM?
Please utilise your time for better things. @SwiggyCares Please send back his money and block his number permanently. Have some respect for urself and ur staff. You need better customer. https://t.co/vrPftZoi0d— Pramod Kumar Srivastava (@P_K_Srivastava) November 6, 2021
. @WFP please take note, poor guy is starving to death! https://t.co/fgHc8w4xZR
— (@Donny_drakoo) November 6, 2021
Am I hallucinating rn or is this real life https://t.co/b6t3wfIBKl
— MbappeFanboi (@ArtetasDecade) November 6, 2021
Also tag @UN @POTUS @IMFNews @ilo .
It's a very urgent issue. https://t.co/uLMTWYqVzf— Arghya Kusum Dey (@annoarghya) November 6, 2021
On the other hand, there were people who came out in the actor's support.
Thankyou so much for highlighting this issue
Ignore the mean comments you are seriously doing a great job.. more power to you
— SID TWEETS (@MlonMast) November 6, 2021
Finally, someone had the guts to raise this issue which everybody thinks about but no one dared to open his mouth. Thanks Sir pic.twitter.com/v3xaEcLxBq
— Abhinav (@say2aj) November 6, 2021
(Source: Twitter)
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