Controversy eclipses India’s victory, Kerala says no to SIR | Daily Wrap

India beat arch-rivals Pakistan by 5 wickets in their Asia Cup final in Dubai on Sunday. However, controversy reared its ugly head once again.

After Team India refused to accept the trophy and medals from Mohsin Naqvi, President of the Asian Cricket Council and Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, the presentation ceremony was delayed for over an hour. Why? Because Naqvi, who is also the Pak Interior Minister, had fled the stadium with both of them.

No trophy, no matter. Team India captain Suryakumar Yadav made sure to let everyone know who the champs were. First by mimicking Rohit Sharma’s iconic walk from India’s 2024 T20 World Cup triumph and then holding aloft the imaginary trophy to a rapturous crowd.

Congress decries death threat to Rahul Gandhi

Moving on, Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding a “chilling and heinous” death threat issued to Rahul Gandhi.

In it, Venugopal decried Printu Mahadev, a former state president of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), declaring that “Rahul Gandhi will be shot in the chest”. Furthermore, Venugopal reiterated that any failure by Shah to “act swiftly, decisively and publicly will be judged as complicity and normalisation of violence against the Lok Sabha’s Leader of Opposition”.

Kerala says no to ECI’s SIR

Shifting focus, the Kerala government unanimously passed a resolution urging the ECI to drop its plans for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across the country.

The move makes the Kerala Legislative Assembly the first in the country to bring such a resolution, one that says the Election Commission of India’s move raised serious concern that the SIR is aimed at implementing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) indirectly.

4 killed by gunman at a Michigan church

And in the US, at least 4 people were killed and 8 others injured after a gunman drove a vehicle into a Michigan church, opened fire and then set the building on fire.

The police later shot dead the suspect, identified as Thomas Jacob Sanford, in the building’s car park.

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