New Delhi: In a Facebook post Randeep Hooda writes, “don’t hang me over a laugh, Viru cracked a joke and I admit I laughed. He is so witty and this is one of the million other things he has said that made me crack up”.
Gurmehar Kaur, the Kargil martyr’s daughter whom he and cricketer Virender Sehwag have been accused of bullying.
Gurmehar is a student at Delhi University who has criticized the BJP’s youth outfit ABVP over campus violence in Delhi’s Ramjas College, has also protested war, holding a placard that read, “Pakistan did not kill my father, war killed him”.
A tweet from Virender Sehwag in which he held up a similar sign that read, “I did not score two triple centuries, my bat did.” The tweet went viral and both Mr Sehwag and Randeep Hooda, who quoted it, have been accused of mocking Gurmehar Kaur.
Mr Hooda, who has been locked in arguments with journalists on Twitter over his quoting of the tweet, blamed the media for what he describes as ‘attaching labels’, “She wasn’t tagged in his joke nor in my amusement. But some journalists, among others, are trying hard to give this all kinds of colours to malign us and prove their point.
They want to attach labels to us to further their agendas. That’s bullying and if you think you can bully us, you have another thing coming.”
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