Sunil Gavaskar slams Bharat Army for disrespecting Indian Tricolor

“I cognize that successful India it’s not accepted,” Gavaskar said portion doing commentary connected ABC Sport during time 2 of the archetypal Test against Australia.

“I don’t deliberation these [fans] are truly Indians. I’m not excessively definite however galore of them person Indian passports, truthful they astir apt don’t recognize the value, the relevance, the value of the Indian flag.

“All Indians, including me, are precise grateful for the enactment that they bring to the Indian cricket squad wherever the Indian cricket squad is playing. We are really, truly thankful and grateful for that, but I would petition them not to person their group’s sanction connected the India flag.

“Design a caller emblem of your own. If you plan a caller emblem of your own, I volition myself deterioration it with large pleasure.”

According to conception 2 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, “there shall beryllium nary lettering upon the nationalist flag” of India.

It states: “The nationalist emblem shall not beryllium utilized arsenic a information of costume oregon azygous oregon accessory of immoderate statement which is worn beneath the waist of immoderate idiosyncratic nor shall it beryllium embroidered oregon printed connected cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, undergarments oregon immoderate formal material.”

The Bharat Army was formed successful 1999, and has adjacent ties with the Indian cricket squad and has much than 160,000 members globally.