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Virender Sehwag Finally Opens About His Tweet Towards Gurmehar Kaur

We’re living in a generation where Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism have become the taglines implicating the opinions. Virender Sehwag became the social media’s target after his insensitive reply to Gurmehar Kaur. 20-year-old Gurmehar Kaur is Kargil martyr’s daughter.

Viru, took a dig at Cargill martyr’s daughter on her tweet criticizing the functioning of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Sehwag’s tweet gave rise to a hoard of trolls and people mindlessly posted replies for his tweet. Even Gautam Gambhir expressed his disappointment for mocking the girl.

Shashi Tharoor also criticized Sehwag for his insensitive tweet and said, “I am disappointed that my cricket hero Virender Sehwag chose to enter the wholly politicized debate over Gurmehar Kaur’s words by saying, “I didn’t score two triple centuries, my bat did.”

Virender Sehwag has defended himself over a tweet he posted which dragged him into a huge controversy. After receiving a lot of controversy from each and every corner the former Indian player clarified the issue. He clarified his stance by saying that his tweet was misconstrued and he did it just for “plain fun”.

Here are some of the celebrity reactions for his tweet:

After realizing the effect he understood that humour can’t be used as a weapon when some sane people are trying to mitigate the violence afflicted on DU students.