The coronavirus pandemic forced almost the entire world to stay at home. India is currently on lockdown until April 15 to break the spread of the virus. However, this lockdown has caused problems for families of daily wage laborers. Many foundations and charitable trusts have come forward to help them and also cricketers and celebrities are doing their part.
Maharashtra is one of the worst affected states in India, with over 120 patients favoring coronavirus. Pune is one of the most visited cities in the state and MS Dhoni has donated Rs 1 lakh to help the daily wage laborers in the city. He donated the money to the Mukul Madhav Foundation, public charitable trust in Pune, through the crowdsourcing website Keto.
The fundraiser set a goal of achieving Rs 12.5 lakh for the great cause and has already raised over 12 lakhs for the foundation. These donations will help to provide daily grocery supplies to families of daily wage laborers.
MS Dhoni is heartbroken but fans have criticized him
MS Dhoni’s help is heartening to the daily wage workers and many praise him too. But some fans have been busy in criticizing him. The 38-year-old said they felt like they should donate a lot more and the lakhs would be a much smaller amount. Interestingly, MS Dhoni has topped the fundraiser so far and the criticism, in this case, has not been counted.
Meanwhile, apart from Ranchi superstar, Sourav Ganguly, Irfan Pathan, and Yusuf Pathan have also come forward to help the poor. The BCCI president has donated Rs 50 lakh worth of rice to protect themselves from coronavirus, while the face masks have been donated to Irfan and Yusuf. In addition, Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan also donated to the Prime Minister’s Aid Fund and asked his fans to donate as well.
However, fans were not impressed with MS Dhoni and criticized him for not donating a large sum for poor people.
Here are some of the tweets:
MS Dhoni has donated Rs 1 lakh to support 100 families for 14 days in Pune.
His net worth is approximately Rs 800 crores.
— Nirmala Tai (@Vishj05) March 26, 2020
MS Dhoni has donated Rs 1 lakh to support 100 families for 14 days in Pune.
His net worth is approximately Rs 800 crores.
— Jêelån Shêikh 🏏 (@JeelanPrince) March 27, 2020
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
I am a dhoni tard but if he has donated 1 lakh only . I am the first one to be very sad about this. https://t.co/nFkqennP8A
— msdian 2511 (@swapnilbajpai82) 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
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
— Mohammed Yaseen🇮🇳ياسين (@myaseenahmed) 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
— @Morally Corrupt Nation (@Castic19) March 27, 2020
This was the appeal and the richest guy donated
Rupees 1 lakh
Mr Dhoni – you’re worth 800 Crore
I hope you’re contributing incognito as well 🤦🏽♂️ https://t.co/vLlpi4Bg0d— Sangfroid (@figaar_) March 26, 2020
Roger Federer donates 1 million swizz francs for swizz people and Dhoni donates 1 lakh rupees for indian in this pandemic. @BCCI @msdhoni
— Narendra Singh Rathore (@rathorenp) March 26, 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
— IIIIIIIIII (@_NairFYI) March 26, 2020
The man @msdhoni who has more than 1000 crore has donated 1 Lakh and media is going gaga with him. What a non sense. #Dhoni #21daysLockdownIndia #21daysoflockdown #21daylockdown
— Soumya (@soumyasarkar007) March 27, 2020
Even @KapilSharmaK9 donated 50 lakhs and dhoni 1 lakh…. 😂🙏 pic.twitter.com/lp2Xb5Elvj
— Nationalist (@SudeepDebnath15) March 26, 2020
