India vs Pakistan: Fans taunt Muhammad Rizwan with 'Jai Shri Ram' chants, politicians call it 'unacceptable'

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ALSO READ: India vs Pakistan match: How Pakistani media reacted, ‘We came, we saw and we collapsed’ DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin said on social media platform X and wrote, “India is renowned for its sportsmanship and hospitality. However, the treatment meted out to Pakistan players at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is unacceptable and a new low. Sports should be a unifying force between countries, fostering true brotherhood.

Using it as a tool to spread hatred is condemnable." Apart from this, Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale also reacted to the incident and questioned whether “we’re qualified & sporting enough to host ANY international sporting event". “PM Modi desperately wants India to host the 2036 Olympics. But if this is what BJP has reduced our audiences to - where they heckle a Pakistani player with chants of Jai Shri Ram - massive doubts remain over whether we’re qualified & sporting enough to host ANY international sporting event.

Not surprisingly - the stadium where this happened is called Narendra Modi stadium," Gokhale posted on X. However, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia posted another video where he posted the massive crowd at the stadium can be purportedly seen singing “Jai Shri Ram". “The entire stadium was mesmerized with the chanting of Jai Shri Ram.

Then we all saw what happened next," Bhatia wrote. BJP leader Kapil Mishra lauded the crowd and wrote “well done Ahmedabad" on his X account. “Proud of all of you.

Jai Shri Ram," he said. Following the Rizwan incident, mixed reactions poured in on social media with a section of users sharing a clip of Indian players being trolled by Pakistani fans in 2017 to justify the actions of the Ahmedabad crowd. While others criticized the Ahmedabad fans'