Virat Kohli Anti-National for Not Marrying in India Says BJP MLA
Published - 19 Dec 2017, 11:46 PM | Updated - 22 Aug 2024, 11:47 PM
An MLA of the political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ignited a new controversy as he blamed Team India skipper Virat Kohli for not being patriotic. The flamboyant Delhi lad chose Italy as his marriage destination which didn’t go down well with him and that was the reason behind his comments of Virat not being patriotic.
“Virat has earned money and fame in India and he went to Italy to get married. Bhagwan Ram got married on this land, Bhagwan Krishna got married on this land and this man went to Italy to get married. He cannot be a Rashtra bhakt [patriot],” said Panna Lal Shakya, BJP MLA from Guna, Madhya Pradesh.
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He further added that the Indian skipper cannot be an inspiration to Indians as he feels that peo[ple who are only loyal to their country deserves the inspiration. He also voiced the same opinion on Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma while inaugurating Narendra Modi’s skill centre in Guna.
The MLA also took a jibe and said that the dancers of Italy became millionaires overnight in India while the Indian skipper took India’s wealth out of India. It came as a big surprise that the MLA questioned the patriotism of arguably the most celebrated cricket in the world at the moment. The Congress Party has described Sakya’s comments which had targeted Virat Kohli for the direct impact on the outcome of the Gujarat polls.
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“The message from Gujarat is clear. The BJP now realizes that they cannot survive in Madhya Pradesh without raking up the issue of nationalism. Their supreme leader questioned the integrity of a former army chief, a former prime minister and a former vice-president to divide society and win votes in Gujarat,” Madhya Pradesh Congress spokesman Pankaj Chaturvedi was quoted as saying by the India Today.
Kohli has been dominating world cricket across all 3 formats of the game for a considerable amount of time. He is 2nd in the list for batsman with most centuries in ODI’s while he became the first skipper in the world to smash 6 Test double centuries which have all come in the last 17 months.
