Gurmehar Kaur, the 20-year-old girl from Lady Shri Ram College on March 8, responded to Randeep Hooda's interview with The Times of India where he said that he should not have responded to her tweets.
"It wasn't gender specific. I was and I am against politicisation of personal opinions. There was an axe to grind and considering the environment in the country vis-a-vis women, in hindsight, I do believe I should have been more careful," Hooda said, adding that he had been the victim of trolls and could only empathise with what Kaur endured.
To which Kaur simply responded
Her tweet had evoked a lot of praise and criticism on social media
It has been two weeks since the Ramjas College ruckus was blown out of proportion. The ABVP got into an altercation with students of the college that resulted in several people, including some teachers getting injured.
In the midst of this, Kaur shared a Facebook post, saying that she wasn't afraid of the ABVP. "I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP". The post, which had since got viral, evoked several strong reactions on social media, with a number of individuals threatening Kaur with rape. She eventually deleted her Facebook profile.
Kaur had in May last year shared a video on why she was fighting the idea of war. Her father, Captain Mandeep Singh, died in the Kargil war when she was a child. Recalling that incident in a video, Kaur said that as a child, she had blamed Pakistan for her father's death and had even wanted to 'stab a burqa-clad woman in the eye'. Her mother then told her, "Pakistan did not kill her father. War did."
This particular clip, however, did the rounds on social media and her patriotism was questioned, with people even saying that her father would be heartbroken because of his 'anti-national' daughter. It was at this point when cricketer Virender Sehwag, actor Randeep Hooda, and wrestlers Geeta and Babita Phogat, and Yogeshwar Dutt also mocked Kaur.
While Sehwag raised a placard that said, "I did not score two triple centuries. My bat did," Hooda laughed at the 'brilliance' of the tweet and later put up a Facebook post questioning why he didn't have the right to laugh at the joke. "She has the right to protest against what she feels is wrong and it’s also Viru’s right to make a joke about it. We live in a democracy and enjoy the right to freedom of expression! Accusing us of bullying and trolling the girl is wrong," he wrote.
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