Shekhar Gupta, Randeep Hooda’s Twitter War over Martyr’s Daughter 

Actor Randeep Hooda took to Twitter to approve of Virender Sehwag’s reaction to Gurmehar Kaur’s post.

Journalist Shekhar Gupta however was not impressed by the Sehwag’s and Hooda’s posts, accusing both of them for resorting to low tactics to mock the 20-year-old daughter of a Kargil martyr.

Gurmehar Kaur had released a video on Thursday, wherein she expressed her own feelings against the ABVP. She did so by holding up a card that read her message against the organisation. Virender Sehwag’s tweet was his interpretation that same format.

The entire exchange started with Virender Sehwag’s reply to Kaur, which Hooda applauded.

Shekhar Gupta replied to both Hooda and Sehwag, expressing his own disappointment at their tweets.

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Hooda then proceeded to claim that Gurmehar was a ‘poor girl’ being used as a front for a political message.

Gupta was quick to rubbish Hooda’s claim, defending Kaur and referring to her as a ‘strong, thinking adult’.

Kaur herself directly responded to Hooda, claiming she was not a pawn, and that she condoned violence in any form. In his defense, Hooda felt that her original post was open to interpretation.

Gupta took Kaur’s side once again, saying that while any interpretation was allowed, it needed to be backed by debate and not mockery — which he accused Hooda of.

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Hooda tried calming the situation by claiming that he was simply admiring Sehwag’s quick wit on Twitter – for which he has acquired quite a bit of fame.

Barkha Dutt also joined the conversation, after exercising her own freedom of speech, after Hooda defended Sehwag for expressing his own.

After regarding Kaur as a ‘pawn’ and a ‘prop’, Hooda curiously back-tracked on his statements, asking everyone to ‘not politicise the young girl’s thoughts’.