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The Punjab speedster questioned the logic behind using words 'internal matter' after international celebs raised voice in support of farmers' protests
After several Indian current and former cricketers tweeted in support of the Ministry of External Affairs' campaign of #IndiaTogether and #IndiaagainstPropaganda suggesting the farmers' protest is an internal matter and doesn't give any outsider rights, Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer Sandeep Sharma questioned the logic of people tagging it as an 'internal matter' after pop star Rihanna spoke about the internet shutdown in Delhi.
Sandeep, who recently represented Punjab in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy has been vocal in the past too, about the same along with many other cricketers from Punjab like Mandeep Singh, Shubman Gill. However, after the ministry's tweet, several Indian cricketers too tweeted saying that the farmers' protests are an internal matter and shouldn't concern any international personality and wished for the issue to come to its conlusion very soon.
Frustrated with the so many tweets giving the same reason, Sandeep took to Twitter and wrote, "By this logic no one should care about each other because every situation is someone's internal affair."
Along with the message, Sandeep also shared an image which read, "Many people, including the Indian External Affairs Ministry, have criticized the famous singer Rihanna for having supported the Indian farmers, saying it is the internal affair of India.
"But by that logic, no one outside Germany should have criticized the persecution of the Jews in Germany during the Nazi era. By that logic, no one outside Pakistan should criticism the persecution of Ahmadis, Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians in Pakistan. By that logic no one outside India should criticize the lynching and other atrocities on Muslims in India, or the massacre of Sikhs in 1984.”
“By that logic nobody outside America should criticize racialism in several parts of America and bad treatment of blacks. By that logic no one outside China should criticize the persecution of the Uighur Muslim minority in China. By that logic no one outside South Africa should have condemned apartheid and denial of the right to vote to blacks in South Africa when apartheid was prevailing. By that logic no one outside Burma should have criticized the persecution of Rohingyas in Burma.”
“After all, these were internal affairs of those countries," the image futher added. However, he later deleted the tweet.
Apart from Sandeep, former left-handed all-rounder Irfan Pathan and Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary too spoke about the issue.
When George Floyd was brutally murdered in the USA by a policeman,our country rightly expressed our grief. #justsaying
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) February 4, 2021
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. It took me 35 years to see one pic.twitter.com/AMCGIZMfGN
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj) February 4, 2021
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