New Delhi:
Union sports activities minister Mansukh Mandaviya has slammed two Congress and Trinamool leaders whose unfavorable feedback on Rohit Sharma have hit the headlines, calling their “physique shaming” of the Group India captain not solely deeply shameful but in addition outright pathetic”.
In a publish on X, the minister stated, “Congress and TMC ought to go away sportspersons alone as they’re totally able to dealing with their skilled lives… Such feedback undermine the exhausting work and sacrifices that our sportspersons make to signify the nation on the worldwide stage”.
Congress and TMC ought to go away sportspersons alone as they’re totally able to dealing with their skilled lives.
Remarks made by leaders from these events, indulging in physique shaming and questioning an athlete’s place within the crew, should not solely deeply shameful but in addition outright…
— Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) March 3, 2025
Final week, throughout India vs New Zealand Champions Trophy conflict, Congress’s Shama Mohamed stated Rohit Sharma “is fats for a sportsman”.
“Have to shed some pounds! And ofcourse essentially the most unimpressive Captain India has ever had,” she added.
Her remarks triggered an enormous backlash from the nation’s sports activities group, politicians and the civil society.
The BJP known as her feedback unpatriotic. The Board of Management for Cricket in India or BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia known as the remarks ‘unlucky’, saying making such feedback in the course of an ICC occasion may have demoralising impact on a cricketer.
Because the Congress, embarrassed, distanced itself from the controversy, she deleted the posts.
Shama Mohammed, nevertheless, doubled down on her feedback right now, saying “It was a generic tweet concerning the health of a sportsperson” and never body-shaming.
“I all the time believed a sportsperson must be match, and I felt he was a bit obese, so I simply tweeted about that. I’ve been attacked for no purpose… I’ve the correct. What’s flawed in saying? It’s a democracy,” she advised reporters right now.
The chief additionally obtained help from an unlikely quarter – the Trinamool Congress.
Trinamool’s Sougata Ray stated, “I heard that Rohit Sharma’s efficiency has been fairly poor. He scored one century, however aside from that, he will get out after scoring 2, 3, 4, or 5 runs. He should not be (on the crew). India wins as a result of the opposite gamers play properly, however the captain does not contribute.
The veteran chief added, “What Shama Mohamed has stated is appropriate”.
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