My tweet wasn't intended for Gurmehar: Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag ran into trouble last day when he chose to have some light entertainment with a tweet, that has now gone controversial and drawn criticism from a large number of people. Sehwag posted with a placard stating, “I didn’t score two triple centuries, my bat did”. The tweet didn’t go well with the social media, which is ready to pick a fight any given moment.

The star batsman has come out to clarify that he didn’t intend it for the twenty-year-old Gulmehar. “My tweet wasn’t intended for Gurmehar. It was plain fun but people construed the other way,” he told India Today.

Gulmehar Kaur is a student of Lady Sri Ram College, who posted a video which went viral on Facebook regarding the tensions in Delhi University. Daughter of  Capt. Mandeep Singh, who was killed in the Kargil War against Pakistan, Gulmehar described in the video how she hated Pakistanis in her childhood for her father’s death. But her mother made her understood that she didn’t have to hate every Muslim, whom she thought were all Pakistanis.

Gulmehar said, “Pakistan didn’t kill my dad. War killed him”. Sehwag posted his controversial tweet mocking this statement of Gulmehar, which was posted in the backdrop of political tension between two organisations in DU.

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Sehwag’s allegedly cold-blooded tweet was furiously encountered in social media and he was dragged into opinions that he was aligning for political favours. Social media was of the opinion that Sehwag tried to bully a young girl and it was not the right thing for him to do.

Apparently, Sehwag took the wrong incident to make a witty statement. Clearly, this one has flown off his edge and the dasher has been caught off-guard, requiring him to come with a clarification.