Watch: Sunil Gavaskar Asks Students To Attend Classes While Speaking About Protests Over Citizenship Amendment Act
Published - 12 Jan 2020, 03:38 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 06:33 AM
Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar urged students across the country to “head back to their classrooms”, stating that their primary duty is to be in classrooms and study. The legendary batsman was referring to the numerous incidents of protests by students across the nation in the wake of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as well as the recent violence at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The CAA seeks to grant Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and who entered India on or before December 31, 2014. The act has divided opinions throughout the country. There are also protest in various parts of the country as few sections have expressed their reservations over the act.
Referring to the recent protests, Sunil Gavaskar stated that the country is in turmoil. He also expressed confidence that India will overcome the current “turmoil” caused by nationwide students’ protests just like it had dealt with several critical situations in the past.
“The country is in turmoil. Some of our youngsters are out on the street when they should be in their classrooms. Some of them are ending up in hospitals for being out on the streets,” said Sunil Gavaskar at the start of his speech at the 26th Annual Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture.
“The majority of them are in classrooms trying to forge their career and build to take India forward. We as a nation can go higher only when we are all together. When each one of us has to be simply Indian. That is what the game taught us.
“We win when we pull together. India has overcome many crisis in the past. It will overcome this as well and emerge a stronger nation. We as a nation can go higher only if we are all together,” he added.
#WATCH Sunil Gavaskar: Country is in turmoil. Some of our youngsters are out in streets instead of being in classrooms&some of them are ending up in hospitals for being out on streets. Admittedly, majority is still in classrooms trying to forge career&to build&take India forward. pic.twitter.com/4Er3jGoqf2
— ANI (@ANI) January 11, 2020
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