Daughter pads up, Ganguly at Silly Point

Even as Sourav Ganguly is holding the fort at BCCI with Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay, his daughter Sana seems to have padded up for a different cause.

She allegedly shared on Instagram an excerpt from none other but Khuswant Singh's "The end of India." The excerpt 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 he 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,” the Instagram story read.

However, Sana’s alleged Instagram story couldn’t be seen after some time. Instagram stories ideally last for 24 hours, unless deleted by the owner of the account or taken down by Instagram.

Later in the evening, Ganguly described his daughter’s alleged Instagram post as 'not true'. He also said that his daughter is too young to know anything about politics and should be left alone.

"Please keep Sana out of all these issues ... this post is not true ... she is too young to know anything about politics," Ganguly tweeted.

Ganguly is not alone in the closet. Seasoned cricketers like Virender Sehwag, who is an alumni of Jamia Millia Islamia, have refused to comment on the CAA controversy. The only cricketers to take a stand in solidarity with the student protestors are Aakash Chopra and Irfan Pathan. At the time of writing, the Instagram story was not available on Sana’s Instagram handle.