Asian Cup: Shiv Sena holds protest against BCCI for agreeing to India-Pakistan clash
"Restoration of sports relations with Pakistan, which has been playing the dirty game of terrorism for the last four decades in Jammu and Kashmir including Pulwama, Pahalgam attacks, will be an act that hurts the public sentiments of the nation, betting money during the match nourishes terrorism, when water, air space can be stopped, why sports relations?" said Manish Sahni, President, Shiv Sena (UBT) while leading the protest.
Sahni led Shiv Sena activists demonstrated near the Muthi holding placards that read "Sports relations with the killers of Sindoor are intolerable", "Water and airspace stopped, why Cricket ?", "Nurturing terrorism through match betting", etc.
Sahni said that any kind of relations with the enemies of "Sindoor" cannot be tolerated.
After being humiliated and pleading during Operation Sindoor, Pakistan has once again started infiltrating the border and nurturing terrorists. 98 terrorist incidents took place in Jammu and Kashmir from January to July this year (2025) and 32 terrorists were killed, he said.
After "Operation Sindoor", 13 terrorists were killed in 13 incidents in May, four terrorists were killed in 12 incidents in June and three terrorists were killed in eught incidents in July.
On the very first day of August, a terrorist was killed in Kulgam, Kashmir, while the encounter is still going on, Sahni said adding that the tail named Pakistan will never straighten up. During the Indo-Pak cricket match, betting kingpin Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and his henchmen hiding in Pakistan's lap become more active.
Because the most betting is done when these two countries come face to face.
A large part of this money is used to nurture terrorists, he added.
Sahni has also accused BCCI of hurting national sentiments and filling its coffers.
He has advised BCCI to learn from Indian players (who had clearly refused to play league and semi-finals with Pakistan) during the recently organized Championship of Legends.
Sahni has demanded the Modi government to issue strict instructions to BCCI regarding not playing matches with Pakistan.
Along with this, love for the country in case of a match with India, he has appealed to boycott the stadium and the TV channels broadcasting the match.
Asia Cricket Cup 2025 is starting from 9 September.
According to the released schedule, there will be two matches between India and Pakistan in the tournament. On the other hand, if both the teams reach the final, then there will be a match between India and Pakistan thrice.
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