New Delhi: A Facebook campaign against by the daughter of a Kashmir martyr against RSS-affiliated ABVP became the latest flashpoint between the government and Opposition on Monday.
Gurmehar Kaur, a 22-year-old Delhi University student, had started the campaign 'I am not afraid of ABVP', following the violence at Ramjas College last week. The campaign went viral and received massive support from students of various universities.
Sehwag shared an image of him holding a placard saying, "I did not score two triple centuries. My bat did." While many criticised Sehwag for comparing a cricket match to a war, many others, including Randeep Hooda, cheered Sehwag for his remark, saying, "She (Gurmehar) is being made a pawn”.
"Really sweet of you to encourage the hate I've been receiving. Makes me feel happy that I adored your work :) Pawn? I can think. I don't support violence perpetuated on students? Is that so wrong (sic)," Kaur said in a series of tweets in reply to Hooda's comment.
The twitterati reacted negatively to the actor's remark prompting him to get into a damage control mode. "What's sad is that the poor girl is being used as political pawn...It absolutely wrong..have a feeling it's not limited to that in interpretation (sic)" he tweeted.
Pratap Simha, BJP MP from Mysuru, tweeted, "At least Dawood did not use the crutches of his father's name to justify his anti-national stand." To mock Kaur, Simha also posted a photograph showing Dawood with the message, "I didn't kill people in 1993. Bombs killed them."
Talking to reporters, he later said, "One should not say things which could demoralise the countrymen and the forces. Everybody has freedom but that does not mean that you raise slogans to weaken the country."
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