Sanjana Ganesan, Devisha Shetty React To Delhi Student Protest

Instagram Stories shared by the wives of Indian cricketers Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav on the student protest in Delhi have gone viral. Posts by Sanjana Ganesan, Bumrah's wife, and Devisha Shetty, Suryakumar Yadav's wife, about the protest have sparked an online debate.

Sanjana Ganesan expressed grief over a six-year-old being affected by tear gas and said that peaceful citizens should not have to fear the people meant to protect them.

She shared a post that read: "If this can happen to a six-year-old sitting away from the protest, it can happen to anyone. No democracy should normalize children choking on tear gas. No peaceful citizen should have to fear the people meant to protect them."

"Call it sponsored. Call it politically motivated. Call it coloured. Call it contaminated. None of those labels change the fact that young Indians are choosing to stand in the line of fire to make themselves heard. It's time to engage more and defend less. These are young Indian citizens. The police should be able to manage a protest. The government should listen to what brought them there," she shared on Instagram.

She also shared another post that read: "But violence isn't democracy. The moment you throw stones, attack police, break barricades, or destroy public property, you're no longer protesting. You're breaking the law."

Students on Monday converged near Parliament on the first day of the Monsoon Session to demand the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, only to be pushed back by lathis and teargas shells.