Condemning the Shiv Sena for barging into the BCCI office and ruining the meeting between PCB chief Shahryar Khan and his Indian counterpart Shashank Manohar, the Congress on Monday accused the BJP of being “insincere” in dealing with the forces of disruption.
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said several right-wing Hindutva forces that enjoy some degree of patronage from the ruling BJP had been violating democratic spaces under the garb of protest politics. “The right of protest remains but the protest has to be civilised,” Mr. Sharma said, adding that the Sena’s protest had crossed the “Lakshman rekha.”
“We cannot allow a situation in India where any handful of people or any organisation decides what the people of India will wear, what they will eat, what they should play, whom they should play with,”he said.
