Playing cricket with Pakistan is like insulting Palalgam victims: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held an illustration on Sunday to protest in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre for permitting India to play in opposition to Pakistan within the ongoing Asia Cup cricket match in Dubai, citing the latest Pahalgam terror assault that claimed 26 lives.

Calling it an “insult” to those that had been killed within the terrorist assault, AAP urged the folks to boycott the Sunday night match between the 2 neighbouring nations.

AAP’s nationwide convener wrote on X: “Playing a match with Pakistan is treason in opposition to the nation. Every Indian is deeply offended about it.”

Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly, Atishi, mentioned enjoying cricket with Pakistan, a rustic that shelters terrorists, is an “insult to India’s martyrs”.

As a part of the demonstration, AAP girls staff smashed a TV to register their protest.

The Sunday’s match is the primary between the normal rivals for the reason that navy battle in May, when India launched strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan-controlled territories in response to the dastardly terror assault in Pahalgam on April 22.

At a media interplay, AAP MP Sanjay Singh mentioned, “In Pahalgam, our sisters’ sindoor was snatched away. The Centre mentioned terrorists from Pakistan carried this out. After that, Operation Sindoor was launched. Our troopers had been martyred, civilians had been killed, and even an Additional Deputy Commissioner was martyred. How can we play cricket with the identical Pakistan we’re preventing in opposition to?”

Mr. Singh alleged that the BJP talks about patriotism, however for it, “enterprise comes first, and the nation later”.

Several opposition events have additionally protested in opposition to the match.