Sourav Ganguly's Daughter Sana Cites Khushwant Singh To Protest Against Citizenship Act

The protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have rocked the country, with university students at the forefront of these demonstrations against what they term an unconstitutional and undemocratic act of state.

With the police crackdown in Delhi¡¯s Jamia Millia Islamia University and on CAA protestors resulting in widespread agitation across the country, many people including some celebrities have spoken against police action on students and protested CAA.

Now, joining a chorus of voices against the CAA and the assault on students in Jamia is former team India captain Sourav Ganguly's daughter Sana. She took to Instagram and shared a relevant excerpt from Khushwant Singh¡¯s ¡®The End of India¡¯ (published in 2003), voicing her dissent.

It read: ¡°Every fascist regime needs communities and groups it can demonize in order to thrive. It starts with one group or two. But it never ends there. A movement built on hate can only sustain itself by continually creating fear and strife.

¡°Those of us today who feel secure because we are not Muslims or Christians are living in a fool¡¯s paradise. The Sangh is already targeting the Leftist historians and ¡°Westernized¡± youth. Tomorrow it will turn its hate on women who wear skirts, people who eat meat, drink liquor, watch foreign films, don¡¯t go on annual pilgrimages to temples, use toothpaste instead of danth manjan, prefer allopathic doctors to vaids, kiss or shake hands in greeting instead of shouting ¡®Jai Shri Ram¡¯. No one is safe. We must realize this if we hope to keep India alive.¡±

While the 18-year-old has openly raised her voice against CAA, majority of sports fraternity including her father Sourav Ganguly have not uttered a single word.

The not so vocal bigwigs of Bollywood like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Amir Khan, and many others have unsurprisingly been mute spectators so far.

In fact Sourav responded by saying that the post was not true and that Sana was too young to know anything.

Please keep Sana out of all this issues .. this post is not true .. she is too young a girl to know about anything in politics

¡ª Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) December 18, 2019