Gurmehar Kaur controversy: Is it right to support someone who doesn`t support the nation? Asks Babita Phogat

New Delhi: While former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag was the first one to express his views on the Kargil martyr daughter Gurmehar Kaur's remark, several others have joined in to share their opinions.

Sehwag's tweet has received mixed response as on one hand, Randeep Hooda finding the funny side to it, at the same time, it has been slammed by those who thought it was unfair of the Delhi batsman to have poked fun at the message delivered by Gurmehar with her placards.

Ace wrestler Babita Phogat also shared her views on social media by asking, "Jo aapne desh ke haq m bat nhi kar sakti uske haq m bat karna thik h kya???"

Gurmehar, who is the daughter of martyr Captain Mandeep Singh, took the Internet by storm when she posted a video in May last year where held a placard that read, “Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him.”

The controversy comes days after violence on the Ramjas College campus when students and teachers clashed with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members after the latter disrupted a session of the two-day seminar on Bastar over the participation of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid.

Gurmehar also changed her Facebook profile picture holding a placard which read "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".

In a Facebook post which has gone viral, Gurmehar wrote, "The brutal attack on innocent students by ABVP is very disturbing and should be stopped. It was not an attack on protestors, but an attack on every notion of democracy that is held dear in ever Indian's heart. It is an attack on ideals, morals, freedom and rights of every person born to this nation. The stones that you pelt hit our bodies, but fail to bruise our ideas."