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Virender Sehwag mocks girl for supporting Muslim students' right to free speech

Gurmehar Kaur files complaint with women rights panel, saying she was threatened with rape over her campaign

News Desk February 27, 2017

Gurmehar Kaur files complaint with women rights panel, saying she was threatened with rape over her campaign. SCREN GRAB

Former Indian cricket team captain Virender Sehwag trolled a female university student on Monday for announcing her support for two Muslim students who were attending an event disrupted by a nationalist party.

Gurmehar Kaur expressed solidarity with Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid, both students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), after members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) disrupted a session which was under way at Delhi University.

"I am a student of Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me," Kaur said.

Sehwag mocked the girl saying, "I didn't score two triple centuries, my bat did."

Bat me hai Dum !#BharatJaisiJagahNahi pic.twitter.com/BNaO1LBHLH
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 26, 2017

While the former cricketer was apparently responding to the varsity incident, he was referring to Kaur's tweet that she posted a year ago saying, "Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him." The girl's father Captain Mandeep Singh was killed during the Kargil war.

Not surprising that "nationalists" mock @mehartweets for one pic out of an entire series. Their vision as always is limited by their hate. pic.twitter.com/SCzRL76Jf7
— SamSays (@samjawed65) February 26, 2017

Meanwhile, Kaur filed a complaint with a women right panel, saying she was threatened with rape over her social media campaign against ABVP.

ABVP is the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, which is the ideological parent of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Sehwag's move also did not go well with social media users who termed it to be in bad taste.

@virendersehwag what's sad is that the poor girl is being used as political pawn and it seems you are a party to it ..
— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) February 26, 2017

Bat me hai Dum !#BharatJaisiJagahNahi pic.twitter.com/BNaO1LBHLH
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 26, 2017

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The article first appeared on Indian Express

COMMENTS (8)

Dr.shaikh | 7 years ago | Reply Viru u r a true indiot and a clown... and all of u indiots shame on u guys... you people try to show nationalism and patriotism while your behaviour with a girl that is daughter of a war hero of your country (yes in my view every body who dies fighting for his country is their hero) trying to show and teach u people the value of peace is to threaten her with a rape... what a country of clowns... at least we Pakistanis respect our war heros with depth of our hearts...

LOL | 7 years ago | Reply @Lumdheeng: funny how threatening her with rape is not "crossing limits" for you. you indians are used to it.