Cricketer-turned-politician and the BJP’s East Delhi MPGautam Gambhir on Monday condemned the attack on a Muslim man in Haryana’sGurugram and demanded exemplary action against the culprits.
“In Gurugram Muslim man told to remove skull cap, chantJai Shri Ram. It is deplorable. Exemplary action needed by Gurugramauthorities. We are a secular nation where where Javed Akhtar writes ‘o palanhare, nirgun aur nyare’ and Rakeysh On Mehra gave us the song ‘arziyaan’ inDelhi 6,” Gambhir said in a tweet.
His remarks came after a video went viral in which a Muslimman was purportedly seen in Gurugram being asked to remove his skull cap and tochant ‘Jai Shri Ram:.
The Gurugram Police has registered a case. The police hasalso taken the CCTV footage to identify the culprits.
No one has been arrested yet.