However, under the leadership of the current government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), anti-Muslim sentiment in India has increased. According to the British "Guardian" 2 1 report, in recent weeks, the division in India's religious field has also spread to the field of cricket. The suspicion of religious prejudice in the cricket team in Uttarakhand has put sports through the test of religious disputes.
Is the head coach partial or the association officials involved?
Wasim, 42? Jaafar is one of the most successful Indian cricketers. He ran the most in the Indian Ji Ran Cup, and he is also a Muslim. Jaafar retired in June last year and then coached the state team in Uttar Pradesh. Wasim? Jaafar jaafar resigned as head coach on the 8th of this month, accusing the officials of the state cricket association of being biased. When he announced his resignation, he said that the reason for leaving was that officials of the cricket association of Uttarakhand existed when selecting players? So much interference and prejudice? , selected for the team? An incompetent player? . He also named Mahim, head of the cricket association in Uttarakhand. Verma is one of the main figures who interfere in the team selection.
Several senior officials of the cricket association of Uttarakhand responded strongly to jaafar in Dainik Jagran, India's largest Hindi newspaper. Uttar Pradesh manager Nafnite? Navinet Mishra accused jaafar of favoring Muslim contestants in selecting candidates, preventing them from shouting slogans about Hanuman, a Hindu monkey, thus spreading religious discord. The Indian Express reported that jaafar personally selected three professional players from outside Uttarakhand to play for the team. Verma also revealed that according to the player's report, jaafar invited religious figures to worship during the team's training.
Verma also told the Indian media that jaafar intervened too much in the selection of players. He didn't even listen to the selection committee. He told me at a meeting. You don't know cricket. We gave him power, but he wanted total control, which is unacceptable? .
Jaafar thinks all the charges are? False and unfounded? He emphasized that Hindus and Muslims have equal status in the ranks. Jaafar said that the team had never heard of such slogans, in response to his accusation that players were not allowed to shout slogans involving Hindu gods. Several Sikh players shouted slogans about Sikhism. I once suggested that we should use? Forward, Uttarakhand? (To Uttarakhand)? Come on, Uttar Pradesh? (Come on, Uttar Pradesh). ? Jaafar also said? I told them that we are not fighting for the same person, but for Uttarakhand, so our slogan should also be to fight for Uttarakhand. ?
Besides, jaafar also said, what if what he did was really so disgusting? I wouldn't have resigned, and they would have fired me? . The accusation of Weimar and others? Make him suffer? . Secular cricket encounter? An unprecedented conflict?
The Indian Express reported that Trevendra, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh? Singh? Trivendra Labat ordered an investigation into this matter on February 65438, 2009.
The details of the jaafar incident are unknown for the time being, but the British newspaper The Guardian believes that Indian religious disputes are infiltrating into the cricket field. The commentary said that since 19 1 1, Hindus and Muslims have been fighting side by side in the national cricket team. For India, cricket is an inviolable secular field. At a time when Indian nationalism is on the rise, cricket commentators and ordinary fans are worried that cricket will also be polluted by religious disputes.
Rahul, leader of the Indian opposition Congress Party? Gandhi implicitly responded to the jaafar incident on Twitter: In the past few years, hatred has normalized, and even cricket, our favorite sport, has been affected. ?
Shaershan da? Uggla is one of the most respected cricket writers in India. He feels that no sports official dares to make such accusations against Indian cricket stars. No matter how prestigious an athlete is, just because they are Muslims, they may become targets. . To her disappointment, neither the cricket community nor the Indian Cricket Association (BCCI) stood up to support jaafar. BCCI President Suraf? Sourav Ganguly is jaafar's teammate in the Indian cricket national team.
In recent years, Modi's government has implemented a series of measures regarded as Hindu nationalism, including abolishing the special status of Indian-controlled Kashmir and promoting the revision of the citizenship law. The Supreme Court of India also awarded a disputed site between Hindus and Muslims to Hindus to build the Rama Temple.
Prashant, professor of history at the University of Leicester, UK? Prashant Kidambi is the author of Cricket Country: Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire. What does he think of the jaafar incident? As never before, any religious conflict in cricket is isolated from ordinary fans. Muslims have always played in the national team, which is very important for the imagination of pluralistic and secular India? .
If such an event becomes a trend, it will be disastrous. ? Ke Danbi commented.