As there is a nationwide protest against CAB makes headlines, few celebrities chose to utter their opinion while many of them chose to remain silent. In this Chaos, a post from the daughter of BCCI President and famous former skipper of Indian cricket team Sourav Ganguly on Instagram grabbed many eyeballs. An 18-year-old Sana Ganguly, daughter of Sourav shares an excerpt from the Khushwant Singh’s novel “The End of India”.
This post was related to CAB Bill who passed by the Government of India in Loksabha to give citizenship to suppressed minorities in the countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
While many scholars and veteran celebrities didn’t utter a word on controversial CAB bill Sana which is only an 18 year old surprised many by her opinion against CAB bill. She even directly blamed Sangh for its Hindutva Politics.
However, as his father understood the tense situation and dismissed her post in a tweet by saying she is too young to understand politics. He wrote, “ Please keep Sana out of these issues..this post is not true…She is a too young girl to know about anything in politics.”
Ganguly received flak on social media for this Tweet. Many said as she is 18 years old, she has every right to put forward her views.
Now on Friday, Sourav Ganguly put forward his point of view on CAB bill and its protest all over the nation. He said,” My message will be to maintain peace. I will not go into the political issues of it because I have not actually read the bill. I do not think it is appropriate to make any comment before understanding but maintain peace and harmony. If there are issues, the concerned people will be available to address it. For me, everyone’s happiness is important.”
With diplomatic views, Ganguly sidelined the question of CAB protest, as he suggested that violence was a major issue. CAB protests all over India is surely troubling the Indian government, as it became an act eventually (CAA).
Many celebrities like Huma Qureshi, Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Dia Mirza, Varun Dhawan, Huma S Qureshi, Sonakshi Sinha, Rajkumar Rao, Irfan Pathan, Anurag Kashyap condemned violence form Police on protesting students of Jamia University, Delhi while Farhaan Akhtar, Sushant Singh and notable writer Ramchandra Guha seen protested openly against this bill.
Despite that, there were some who did not react to the whole situation. The three Khans of Bollywood and Bachchans, Kapoors, Ajay Devgn, Sunny Deol, and many cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid chose to remain silent on this issue. Bollywood was also targetted by the protestors, who were expecting their idols to react to the situation and take a stand.
In protest against CAB bill all over India which turned violent in Guwahati, UP, Delhi, Assam around 10 people died and many police personnel got severely injured. Things do seem to have died down a bit now, though the focus is on the elections happening. Twitter is always on fire with regards to such issues and hopefully, the people get what they want.
Author Name- Kuldeep Chavan
