When Gautam Gambhir joined Virender Sehwag to condemn 'anti-Indians' on Twitter
Something has really gotten Gauti's goat.
Yes, cricketer Gautam Gambhir is the latest one to join the chorus of "leave the country" against "anti-Indians". After a video, which shows a mob heckling, kicking and abusing a CRPF jawan purportedly in Kashmir, went viral, Gambhir lost his cool and tweeted strong messages condemning the incident.
For every slap on my army's Jawan lay down at least a 100 jihadi lives. Whoever wants Azadi LEAVE NOW! Kashmir is ours. #kashmirbelongs2us — Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) April 13, 2017
Anti-Indians hav forgotten dat our flag also stands 4: saffron - fire of our anger, white - shroud for jihadis, green - hatred 4 terror.
— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) April 13, 2017
The veracity of the video couldn't be independently verified by DailyO.
Gambhir was joined by none other than his once opening partner Virender Sehwag.
This is Unacceptable ! Cant do this to our CRPF jawaans .This rot has to stop. Badtameezi ki hadd hai. pic.twitter.com/rZbqGbXk6O
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) April 13, 2017
And with that another war broke out on Twitter.
@PawanGulati5 @GautamGambhir shoot at sight every stone pelter
— sujata satish shetty (@sujashetty) April 13, 2017
Some of Gambhir's fans congratulated him for standing up for the right cause.
@GautamGambhir @htTweets Salute to my Champion bhaiyawho always stand for right thing....
— #GG#KKR Crazy Girl (@naina1924) April 13, 2017
@GautamGambhir @visdutta Such a shame.. Kashmir mobs have been vandalised in brains beyond control. who want to embrace destructor and harm protectors
— Nalini Dutta (@NaliniDutta) April 13, 2017
@GautamGambhir @htTweets gauti this is really a heart touching video ????????????.They should be punished and they all should kicked from our india
— Best of luck gauti???? (@prem05gautifan) April 13, 2017
Praises flooded Sehwag's Twitter timeline too.
@virendersehwag Like you hit ball out of the boundary from your Bat. As same, we all together hit these traitors and sending them out of the Border line.
— Abhishek Mishra (@Abhishek_Mshra) April 13, 2017
@Abhishek_Mshra @virendersehwag जय हिंद???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? #CRPF
— Manish Sharma (@s7manish) April 13, 2017
Of course, there were some who didn't quite agree with the cricketers.
@GautamGambhir Wat on earth r u even trying to say ??? Stick to cricket brother this makes no sense at all
— Salilacharya (@Salilacharya) April 13, 2017
@GautamGambhir Understandably you skipped school to play cricket and missed your lessons @GautamGambhir. This is what the Indian Flag stands for. pic.twitter.com/XG9O25llZo
— Expertum Analystixum (@ExpertAnalystix) April 13, 2017
@GautamGambhir Our flag also has blue...A color you will probably never wear again :( https://t.co/MQ4HWS8Mke
— Scotchy (@scotchism) April 13, 2017
@_deepaktiwari @GautamGambhir Of course very upset but these kind of thoughtless reactions add fuel to fires.We need more sensibility and less conflagaratory thought
— Nandita Kao (@kao_nandi) April 13, 2017
@virendersehwag Ur jawans r clearly unacceptable by the people of Kashmir. They should get the fuck out of their land or they will face severe consequences
— Reham Khan (@RehamKhanI) April 13, 2017
@deepeshg9 @RehamKhanI @virendersehwag Indians are responsible for that pareshani man.You pretend to be secular but kills the minorities coz of your dominance.Aah what a shame
— لاہور والی مامی (@MamiLahorewali) April 13, 2017
@virendersehwag when u suppress innocents with pallet guns,u shall stay ready for insulting revenge frm angry mobs.Well done @Rising_Kashmir @MirwaizKashmir
— Libbas Pakistan (@LIBBASPAKISTAN) April 13, 2017
Earlier, after the video surfaced on social media, the CRPF PRO Bhavesh Kumar said they were trying to ascertain the exact location of the video and who has uploaded it.
"This video is not made by our security personnel. We also got this through the social media. An unknown person has made this video and uploaded it. After seeing the circumstances, we think that this can be from some area of Budgam. We are trying to ascertain the exact location," he was quoted as saying by the ANI.