Hyderabad: Criticising Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for his Muslim appeasement policy, BJP senior legislator K. Laxman on Wednesday questioned his rationality behind appointing tennis star Sania Mirza as Telangana’s brand ambassador.
According to him, Sania had insulted India by refusing to carry the Indian flag during the Olympic event and moreover, she was born in Maharashtra, not Telangana.
“If 1956 is the criteria for deciding the nativity of Telangana, where was Sania born and when did she come to Hyderabad? And whom she married (Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik) should also be a criterion for selecting her,” Mr Laxman said and added that there was no rationale behind selecting a “daughter-in-law of Pakistan” to be the brand ambassador of Telangana.
Reacting to BJP’s criticism against appointing Sania Mirza as the Telangana brand ambassador, senior Congress MP Renuka Chowdary, said, “It is cynical. BJP’s criticism of Sania Mirza, who is a sportswoman, only shows their petty, its narrow and communal mindedness; she is a pretty girl and I hope she will do her job correctly and bring laurels to Telangana as its brand ambassador. It has became a habit of the BJP to look at everything through coloured glasses forgetting that sports do not have a colour or religion.”
