On Wednesday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly termed his daughter Sana’s alleged Instagram post related to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as “not true”. He also said that his daughter is too young to know much about politics and she should be left alone.
Tweeting about the same, Ganguly wrote: “Please keep Sana out of all these issues … this post is not true … she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics”.
Please keep Sana out of all this issues .. this post is not true .. she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics
— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) December 18, 2019
On Tuesday, a snapshot of an Instagram story from the 18-year-old Sana’s account was widely circulated among media outlets. Ganguly’s daughter had shared an excerpt from Khushwant Singh’s book ‘The End of India’ and many publications labeled this post as a remark against the CAA.
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The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 says that it’ll grant Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, and who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
On her Instagram story, Sana wrote: “Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonize in order to thrive. It starts with one group or two. But it never ends there. A movement built on hate can only sustain itself by continually creating fear and strife. Those of us today who feel secure because we are not Muslims or Christians are living in a fool’s paradise. The Sangh is already targeting the Leftist historians and Westernized youth.”
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She had further added, “Tomorrow it will turn its hate on women who wear skirts, people who eat meat, drink liquor, watch foreign films, don’t go on annual pilgrimages to temples, use toothpaste instead of danth manjan, prefer allopathic doctors to vaids, kiss or shake hands in greeting instead of shouting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. No one is safe. We must realize this if we hope to keep India alive.”
