{"id":21131,"date":"2025-09-29T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21131"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:04:06","slug":"pm-modis-tweet-on-indias-win-has-confused-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=21131","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi\u2019s tweet on India\u2019s win has confused the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Indian PM Modi just compared last night\u2019s final to Operation Sindoor and the internet is confused. Following the India\u2013Pakistan final, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Indian team with the remark: \u201cOperation Sindoor on the games field. The outcome is the same \u2013 India wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement drew criticism for linking cricket to politics, coming after India declined to accept the trophy from Mohsin Naqvi. \u201cThe victims of the horrific Palagham Attack deserve better than the Prime Minister comparing cricket victory to military escalation that followed the terror strike,\u201d said one X user. \u201cNot to forget, the civilian casualties across the LOC during Operation Sindoor. Who is running this account?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One user deemed his statement as \u2018tone deaf\u2019 while another criticised him for bringing politics into the gentleman\u2019s game. \u201cCongratulations to India for winning the Asia Cup but they have created some terrible precedences and tainted the gentleman&#8217;s \u2019s game for the sake of some arbitrary political face saving,\u201d they wrote. \u201cWatch them cry sportsmen spirit when it inevidently comes to bite them. No respect for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The backlash also built on earlier tensions, as Indian players have avoided shaking hands with their Pakistani counterparts throughout the season.\u201cIt was your measure of pride, history already records your humiliating defeats at Pakistan\u2019s hands,\u201d read another tweet. \u201cNo cricket match can rewrite that truth. Dragging war into sports only exposes desperation and disgraces the very spirit of the game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some were left in disbelief that the Prime Minister could write that. \u201cI even cross-checked thinking it\u2019s a parody account, but it\u2019s an official handle,\u201d wrote an X user. \u201cIt just shows how low one can stoop. Shame!\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian PM Modi just compared last night\u2019s final to Operation Sindoor and the internet is confused. Following the India\u2013Pakistan final, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Indian team with the remark: \u201cOperation Sindoor on the games field. The outcome is the same \u2013 India wins.\u201d The statement drew criticism for linking cricket to politics, coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}