Ramjas row: Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt follows Sehwag, Hooda, mocks DU student Gurmehar Kaur

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt posted a meme on Tuesday morning, deriding Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur in an extremely flippant manner. Responding to Kaur’s message saying Pakistan didn’t kill her father, but war did, Dutt posted a series of memes, even saying Adolf Hitler “didn’t kill Jews, but gas did”. He followed this up with further retweets that had the hashtag #BharatJaisiJagaNahi, the hashtag which was also used by former cricketer Virender Sehwag on Monday.

Yogeshwar is the latest in long list of Indian celebrities who took to social media sites to ridicule Kaur’s stand. Earlier, Sehwag and Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda had criticised the literature student’s remarks, calling her a “political pawn”. Meanwhile, 20-year-old Gurmehar Kaur, who kicked a hornet’s nest with her Facebook post and YouTube video, said that she has had enough and pulled out of the students’ campaign on Tuesday. Gurmehar announced her decision to distance herself from the ongoing campaign against ABVP playing out at Ramjas College. Kaur had last week changed her Facebook profile picture into one holding a placard reading, “I am a student from Delhi University. I am not afraid of ABVP. I am not alone. Every student of India is with me. #StudentsAgainstABVP.” Her classmates and peers started sharing the post, prompting students from various varsities across the country to change their profile pictures with similar placards. Responding to the critics, Kaur told PTI, “I am really disappointed with the statements about my campaign, especially from ‘famous’ people who are questioning my nationalism. Two things I want to clarify is that they do not understand my idea of patriotism and this student campaign is not a political movement.” “It is about students and our campuses being safe from violent threats and it does not matter what organisation it comes from. Nobody can threaten rape to anyone. No matter where he comes from and what his background is,” she added. Ramjas College had witnessed large-scale violence between members of the AISA and the ABVP last week. The genesis of the clash was an invite to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid to address a seminar on ‘Culture of Protests’, which was withdrawn by the college authorities following opposition by ABVP. The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) had also ordered an inquiry into the alleged attacks on women by policemen during the violence and issued a notice to the Delhi police in this regard. With inputs from agencies