Pahalgam victim's widow for boycott of match
The New Indian Express Kozhikode
|September 14, 2025
Mita Bajpai, Harpreet Bajwa & Sudhir Suryawanshi @ Lucknow/Chandigarh/Mumbai
Even as cricket enthusiasts eagerly await the India-Pakistan match in the Asia Cup 2025 championship scheduled for Sunday, there are growing calls from various quarters, including relatives of the Pahalgam massacre victims, to boycott the event.
Aishanya Dwivedi, the young widow of one of the Pahalgam massacre victims, came out strongly against the championship, condemning the gesture and urging all the stakeholders concerned to boycott the fixture.
Criticising the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for agreeing to play against Pakistan, who she described as a "terrorist nation," Aishanya accused it of ignoring the sacrifices of people who lost their lives in the terror attack on April 22, this year.
"The BCCI should not have accepted a match between India and Pakistan. I think BCCI is not sentimental towards those 26 families. What are our cricketers doing? Cricketers are said to be nationalists. It is viewed as our national game. Except for 1-2 cricket players, nobody stepped forward to say that we should boycott the match against Pakistan. BCCI cannot make them play at gunpoint. They should take a stand for their country. But they are not doing it," Aishanya said while interacting with media persons in Kanpur.
This story is from the September 14, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kozhikode.
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