Veteran commentator Harsha Bhogle is the latest individual from the Indian cricket fraternity to voice his opinion over the ongoing protest in the country with respect to Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

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In a lengthy Facebook post, Bhogle on Tuesday (December 24) stated that the government should pay heed to what the youth has to say.

“I think young India is speaking to us. It is telling us what it wants to be; and that it doesn’t want to be what we are telling it to be,” Bhogle wrote. “For many years now, I have been bullish on India. There is a reason. My generation grew up in an India that was still feeling the after effects of being plundered by colonial England. My parents’ generation weren’t just short on resources, they also had their confidence sucked away by a terrible, repressive environment. We were luckier but we still didn’t know what we were capable of.”

Hailing Harsha for his bold statement, one Twitter user wrote: “I can only applaud Harsha for this. His India is broken. No other country’s leader or ruling party in the world is consistently being compared to Nazis. On this issue, we all need to be Harsha. Except for @GautamGambhir . He has chosen to be a figurehead for the party of division.”

Reacting to the netizen’s comment, Bhogle replied: “No Dennis, my India isn’t broken. It is full of vibrant young people doing amazing things too. We are a fully functional, mature democracy. We might voice our dissent, our disappointment at times but we are fiercely Indian. That word you used in comparison.....never.”

Besides Harsha Bhogle, veteran India all-rounder Irfan Pathan had reacted a day after the protest against CAA & NRC led to a violent clash between protestors and Police in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University.

Former India batsman Mohammad Kaif had also expressed his views on this matter on December 20.