Indian bowlers Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik came under fire for refusing to apply tilak on their foreheads during a hotel reception.
The video of the hotel reception of the Indian squad, including Indian captain Rohit Sharma, is being shared rapidly on social media, in which a woman from the hotel management can be seen applying tilak on the foreheads of the Indian players at the time of their entry into the hotel.
It can be seen in the video that during this time, other Indian players including Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik refrained from applying tilak on their foreheads, but the Indian social media account continued to criticize the Muslim bowlers.
On social media, the editor of the Indian TV channel criticized Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik in particular and wrote in Hindi that “Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik did not apply tilak on their foreheads during the reception. They are not Pakistan players, they are players of the Indian team.” , even after becoming a world-class player, he is strict about his religion’.
In response to which a Pakistani social media user reacted by saying that even Vikram Rathore and Hariprasad Mohan did not apply tilak, but Suresh and other right-wing Indian accounts criticized Muslim players Mohammad Siraj and Umran Malik.
