New Delhi: BCCI president and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly’s daughter Sana posted an anti-CAA post from her verified handled Instagram on Wednesday.
Hours after Sana Ganguly posted the story, father Saurav Ganguly took to Twitter for damage control.
The 18-year-old quoted Khushwant Singh’s words of non-fiction, The End of India (2003), to underline her dissent. The post was later taken down. Late-night Sourav tweeted to say that the post was “not true”.
“Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonize in order to thrive. It starts with one group or two. But it never ends there. A movement built on hate can only sustain itself by continually creating fear and strife. Those of us today who feel secure because we are not Muslims or Christians are living in a fool’s paradise. The Sangh is already targeting the Leftist historians and Westernized youth,” wrote Sana.
“Tomorrow it will turn its hate on women who wear skirts, people who eat meat, drink liquor, watch foreign films, don’t go on annual pilgrimages to temples, use toothpaste instead of danth manjan, prefer allopathic doctors to vaids, kiss or shake hands in greeting instead of shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. No one is safe. We must realize this if we hope to keep India alive,” Sana added.
Filmmaker Onir said, “Sad, instead of being a proud father you are being a Shame. Your silence is bad enough. Don’t gag progressive youth voices.”
Political activist Shehla Rashid replied to Ganguly. “Sir, you should be proud of her for saying the right thing. ‘Young girls” have as much a right to be political as old people,” she wrote