My tweet wasn’t intended for Gurmehar Kaur, clarifies Virender Sehwag

Little did Gurmehar Kaur know that her one video would cause such an uproar among the social media, dividing both common public and celebs either in her support or for bashing her.

In a message sent to Kaur, who is a Kargil war martyr’s daughter, and her family members, Manjit Singh GK said those threatening her can not call themselves nationalistic or patriotic.

Kaur had changed her Facebook profile after the violent clashes in the north campus with a picture of her holding a placard which read, “I am a student from Delhi University.

The current lot, instead, jumps to the support of those who threaten, abuse and bully a 20-year-old lady”, he said.

Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh also lashed out at the ABVP for its rape threat to the DU student who had taken up the cudgels against the student body over the recent violence in Ramjas College.

The veteran, who fought in the 1971 India-Pakistan war, said that Kaur was free to air her opinions and that they deserved to be heard. I am not alone. “I used to hate Muslims too because I thought all Muslims are Pakistanis”, read the sheets Kaur holds in the video.

And at the end Gurmehar Kaur replied to this by saying, “Don’t call me a Martyrs daughter if that bothers you”. She expressed her sentiments in a series of tweets, encouraging people to attend the protest march in spite of her absence. “I said what I had to say”, she wrote.

In her letter, Maliwal demanded strict action against those who had threatened Kaur. “Every student of India is with me” with the hashtag #studentsagainstabvp.

The girl earned the wrath of BJP leaders like MP Pratap Simha and minister Kiren Rijiju.

A source said Mr. Singh had asked Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to deal with the students cautiously and not create unnecessary tension on the college campus.

“Your seemingly witty counter to her is not only wrong, it is also trivializes a serious issue concerning war, loss, and deeply personal emotions that are felt only by those who have suffered”, he said, adding “Do not let cynics exploit the power of your words to silence a young woman’s idealism”. “War did.” Kaur was trolled on Twitter over the video as cricketer Virender Sehwag took to Twitter and posted an image of himself holding a placard saying, “I did not score two triple centuries, my bat did”.

Responding to Rijiju’s comment, Akhtar tweeted, “Mr minister, you have condemned the left by falsely accusing them for celebrating soldiers killing n not a word about AVBP”.