Udhayanidhi Stalin objects to crowd chanting Jai Shri Ram throughout India-Pakistan World Cup match in Ahmedabad

On fifteenth October (Sunday), a day after India registered an emphatic victory over arch-rival Pakistan, Tamil Nadu Sports Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin shared a video of cricket followers within the stadium in Ahmedabad chanting Jai Shri Ram as Muhammad Rizwan was making his technique to the pavilion. On the idea of the quick video, Tamil Nadu Minister Stalin claimed that it’s getting used as a software to unfold “hatred”. According to him, it was mistaken for the followers to chant glory to Shri Ram when Pakistani gamers had been enjoying on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. He went additional and referred to as it “unacceptable” and a “new low” in sports activities. 

Taking to X, Udhayanidhi Stalin wrote, “India is renowned for its sportsmanship and hospitality. However, the treatment meted out to Pakistan players at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is unacceptable and a new low. Sports should be a unifying force between countries, fostering true brotherhood. Using it as a tool to spread hatred is condemnable.” 

India is famend for its sportsmanship and hospitality. However, the remedy meted out to Pakistan gamers at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is unacceptable and a brand new low. Sports needs to be a unifying power between nations, fostering true brotherhood. Using it as a software… pic.twitter.com/MJnPJsERyK

— Udhay (@Udhaystalin) October 14, 2023

In his publish, he additional argued that sports activities needs to be used to unite nations and foster brotherhood. Notably, many ‘intellectuals’, and pro-Pakistan ‘activists’ together with a number of Congress governments up to now had used Cricket as a diplomacy and let go Pakistan off its crime in opposition to Indian troopers on the border and state coverage of utilizing terrorism in opposition to India, a timid coverage dubbed as ‘Amman ki Asha’. However, beneath PM Modi, India has maintained that terror and talks, Pakistan-sponsoring terrorism and enjoying with India in bilateral cannot proceed.     

It is necessary to notice that slogans like Bharat Mata ki Jai, Vande Mataram, Jai Shri Ram (Glory to Shri Ram), and different Bollywood-esque devotional renditions had been performed on many events by followers and the DJ throughout yesterday’s match. These have been performed in a number of different video games up to now the place the Men in Blue tackle any opposition on the cricketing pitch.  

However, through the years, efforts have been made to vilify the invocation of chants like ‘Jai Shri Ram’, and Vande Mataram as an illiberal warfare cry by pseudo-leftists and Islamists alike. 

Meanwhile, the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin rose to notoriety after making deranging remarks in opposition to Sanatan Dharma the place he in contrast the religion of greater than 100 crore believers with incurable ailments. Giving a name for “eradication of Sanatan Dharma”, he had stated, “Mosquitoes, dengue, flu, malaria, corona – we should not oppose these things. They’ve to be eradicated completely. The same is the case with Santanam (Hinduism). Our first work should be to abolish/eradicate Sanatanam instead of opposing it. So, my appreciation to you all for giving an apt title to the meeting.”

Since then, a number of leaders from the I.N.D.I.A. bloc have given vile remarks in opposition to Sanatan Dharma. Consequently, a number of FIRs have been filed in opposition to them in reference to their remarks and a bunch of pleas have been filed earlier than the Supreme Court searching for motion in opposition to these “hate speeches” in opposition to Sanatan Dharma.