Twitter hails Sana over CAA post, tells father Sourav Ganguly ‘to be proud of her, she has a spine’

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, December 19

BCCI president and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has termed his daughter Sana's alleged Instagram post related to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as 'not true'. 

Sana’s post over citizenship law has created a fuss on social media with her Instagram post quoting late author Khushwant Singh who was critical of the right wing Sangh Parivar.

As soon as her post became viral, Ganguly took to Twitter and pleaded that “his daughter was too young 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,” Ganguly posted as his daughter's post was deleted.

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

But by then, her post had caught attention of netizens and Sana was widely hailed while the Sourav Ganguly flayed “for not having a spine”.

Sir, you should be proud of her for saying the right thing. "Young girls" have as much a right to be political as old people.

— Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) December 18, 2019

She is 18+ dada
She is educated
She can take her own decisions.
She is well read.
Please allow her the freedom you allowed to your players as a captain..
Will always be your biggest fan as a cricketer and captain..
Love you..

— Saurabh Shrivastava (@SaurabhShri05) December 18, 2019

I don't like this trend of forcing celebrities to express an opinion but a father declaring his adult daughter who lives abroad on her own is too young to know anything about politics is the kind of shit only Indian fathers are capable of...

— Rohit (@Retributions) December 18, 2019

He is afraid. Ambitious fellow.
We are proud of your daughter @SGanguly99 .She is not spineless like you. Always remember
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. RsRsBulwar .

— Sandeep Choudhury (@Sandeep71121431) December 18, 2019

Sana, however, did not make any personal comment in her Instagram post, but only shared an excerpt from Singh's book 'The End of India' that was published in 2003, when the BJP-led NDA government of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in power at the centre.

The excerpt read: "Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonise 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. 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".

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