9-year old so-called climate activist, Licypriya Kangujam is the perfect example of why children her age need to go to regular school. From being a child climate activist, Licypriya now appears to have adopted the role of rent-a-cause activist.
Cherry picking her latest cause, Licypriya has recently extended support to the bank employees on strike against privatisation. Not limiting herself to the ‘privatisation’ concern, Licypriya, in the same tweet has attempted to #StopAdani and appealed to throw him out of business. Not sure if she understands her claims and hashtags.
Being a proud account holder of a nationalised bank, I fully supports #BankStrike against privatisation.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 16, 2021
And being a child who worry for her safe future & healthy planet, I’m against the banks giving huge subsidies & loans to Adani for coal mining.#BankSurgicalStrike #StopAdani
This past year especially has been busy for the little activist with farmers protest, Modi Rojgar Do trend, NEET JEE exams, Narendra Modi Stadium, Bengal elections and a lot more. What do farmers, youth, elections and cricket have to do with climate you ask? Well, that’s one question for the so called climate activist to answer.
Licypriya Kangujam shot to fame holding ‘Save Environment’ placards but soon started holding placards for anything and everything that does not concern the environment. Let’s look at all the times she hopped on to the ‘trend wagon’ just to stay relevant.
This year began with Licypriya standing up against #AdaniJivi claiming “Adani coals are destroying our planet in many countries”. Hmm…that’s some creativity.
Stop #AdaniJivi.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 9, 2021
For some reason, Adani has been on her activism hit-list since long. While her next stop was ‘farmers protest’, she continued to stop Adani through her hashtags in tweets concerning the Farm Bills. Here’s an example:
Should we stop Adani coals & Adani controlling farmers?#ModiDontSellFarmers #StopAdani
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 24, 2021
Yes Yes Yes
👇 👇 👇
In yet another creative move, Licypriya tagged the State Bank of India in a tweet claiming no response from officials upon raising a complaint. SBI was swift to take cognizance of the matter and asked her to share details of her concern. Her response is for all of us to see and learn.
My problem is with your coal policy. When will you stop offering loans to #Adani coal mines to destroy our planet? Public funds should be used for public good, not bailing out a billionaire’s climate-wrecking coal mine. #StopAdani https://t.co/EvQ26zo0EO
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 7, 2021
Impressive how she keeps up with the trends. Kooing about the Koo app, Licypriya raised suspicions on the authenticity of the app’s ‘Aatmanirbharta’.
Koo app is registered ® in China 🇨🇳 and based in USA 🇺🇸. Not really #AtmaNirbharBharat? pic.twitter.com/70xXIJlb7x
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 11, 2021
Moving on, her next pit stop was Ahmedabad’s newly built Narendra Modi stadium. It’s fascinating how she managed to club unemployment and developing new sports facility in this one. “Modi_Job_do” was a Twitter trend being trended by Congress supporters at that time.
Youths are asking #Modi_Job_do, not stadium 🏟. And #FarmsAreNotStadiums.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 25, 2021
Listen to them!
You ask what’s the co-relation? That continues to remain a mystery. She then moved on to what I call a ‘shooting oneself in the foot’ move, where she claimed that the youth of the country need system change and not ‘climate change’. Now why would a climate activist say that? I would like to believe it was just an innocent typo.
Students and youths of this country want system change, not climate change.#modi_job_do #modi_rojgar_do
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 25, 2021
After a hectic month of activism, she finally got to rejoice in a tweet the release of ‘sister’ Nodeep Kaur involved in the farmers protest. However, her placard very explicitly appealed for a change in the ‘system’ to protect the environment.
Today’s #SchoolStrike4Climate.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 26, 2021
Finally Sister #NodeepKaur released today. Thanks God! 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/DMf26gw143
Marking one year of gruesome Delhi Riots, the 9-year old activist thought it was perfectly alright to appeal for climate change amidst communal violence.
It was an important message during the #DelhiRiots2020 for peace on behalf of the children of the country!
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) February 27, 2021
It appears to my Facebook as a MEMORIES of completing one year! pic.twitter.com/rIoBdxAwlc
Licypriya also raised her voice or ‘tweet’ against the promotion of Coronil tablet and advised the leaders to take it first. No reason for her protest against the tablet was cited.
Our leaders should first try Coronil.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 1, 2021
The onset of March witnessed the child climate activist raise voice for women’s safety in UP (not when we saw the great fall of a party and its leader) The unfortunate incident of Hathras where the victims father was killed by the perpetrators on filing a complaint, garnered support from Licypriya. Hope we get to see her support for every such case apart from the ones taking place in UP.
Where is the safest place for young girls and women in UP? 😭#Hathras_Again
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 2, 2021
pic.twitter.com/D6W4jPeyzz
The 9-year old then protested against the Modi government for all of the above in a single tweet, saving time.
Farmers says #ModiRaidsProFarmers
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 4, 2021
Student says #noजॉब_noवोट
Environmentalists says #SaveSimilipal
Raise your voice! ✊🏻
She then marked the 100th day of farmers protest stating, she will continue to support the farmers despite all threats. We are not going to comment on the hypocrisy of stubble burning=supporting farmers=saving environment here.
Today is the historic #FarmersProtest100Days.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) March 5, 2021
Despite all threats, we will continue to support farmers.
My school #Strike4Climate today. I want to encourage all climate activist to plant atleast 1 tree🌱 every friday.
1 millions climate activist = 1 millions trees every week. pic.twitter.com/o9dZ14fiJm
Prior to these antics, Licypriya- the queen of hashtags, stuffed all of them together and asked her followers to do the same. Not sure why.
Tomorrow is the most important day for millions of students of NEET JEE & other exams students.
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) September 3, 2020
Plz ask everyone to come out now & starts trending:#SupremeCourt_PostponeNEETJEE#JEEFailedPostponeNEET #SaveStudentsLives
She even attacked Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi for his shameful act in Hathras and commanded him to reply to her email immediately which talked about solutions for air pollution. As conscious and responsible citizens of the country, we sure would like to know what solutions a 9-year old has for air pollution. This could make us proud.
Dear @RahulGandhi Sir,
— Licypriya Kangujam (@LicypriyaK) October 18, 2020
We don’t want gaa gaa with your VIP security in front of your house like you experienced when you’re on the way to meet #Hathras. If you are seriously think about this country, please reply to my email immediately. Let’s talk solutions about air pollution.
Now, one may wonder, what’s wrong with a little girl voicing her concern on the happenings in the country. Well, most topics are not suitable for her age and reports of her faking her achievements discredits all her agitations.
OpIndia had earlier reported how Licypriya was turned into a celebrity by her father by citing fake achievements. In April 2019, Licypriya claimed that she was on her way to UN headquarters in Geneva to address a ‘global UN session’ for ‘Disaster Risk Reduction’. The news was widely reported and Licypriya was congratulated on social media for ‘making India proud’. Except, it turned out to be fake. Imphal Free Press uncovered that not only was she not invited to the UN but her father was also reported to be an alleged conman.
An investigation by Imphal Free Press revealed that her entire ‘UN invite’ was a sham and a cooked up story by her father, Kangujam Kanarjit. IFP got suspicious over the news item since when they investigated the claims, the UN event showed that registration for delegates was still on and the names of speakers wasn’t confirmed yet. Hence, Licypriya’s claims that she is going to address the session was already on thin ice.
Licypriya claimed to be working as a “Child Disaster Risks Reduction Advocate in International Youth Committee (IYC)” which had very little Internet presence. IFP investigation revealed that IYC chairman was one Dr KK Singh. The Dr KK Singh was Kangujam Kanarjit, who IFP had exposed as a conman back in 2015. Kangujam Kanarjit is Licypriya’s father. Kangujam Kanarjit, was a man behind the Global Youth Summit and World Youth Summit held at Imphal and is charged of cheating and fraud. He has been accused by several businessmen of duping them.
And now it seems, the ‘guardian’ handling her Twitter account, seems to have found a new way of conning people by trending hashtags and being part of hashtag activism. In all this, an innocence of a child is lost.
