Gautam Gambhir lashes out at people refusing to stand up during national anthem

Former Indian International and an integral part of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ setup, Gautam Gambhir, is perhaps the most patriotic amongst the bunch of cricketers presently in India.

There have been numerous instances when he has hailed the Indian soldiers for their sacrifices and raised his voice whenever the personnel in the defence are subjected to injustice or mistreatment.

Yet again, the southpaw brought an important issue of people not respecting the national anthem whenever being played in the cinema halls. Almost one year back, the Supreme Court made it mandatory for one and all stand up and sing the national anthem at the start of movies in cinema halls.

The idea was to promote the sense of long-lost patriotism amongst masses, who do not have enough opportunity to sing along with the anthems due to their busy daily lives. In fact, the last time people had the chance of sing ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was during their teenage at the morning school assembly.

Keeping the fact in mind, the Supreme Court made it compulsory for one and all to sing the national anthem before the start of any movie in a cinema hall. However, it is usually seen that some of the people in the halls do not bother to even stand up let alone sing along with the anthem, thereby, disrespecting it.

Gambhir took up the issue and claimed that people are open to waiting in long queues for even half an hour outside some club, but cannot spare even less than a minute to stand up while the anthem is being played at the halls.

“Standin n waitin outsid a club:20 mins.Standin n waitin outsid favourite restaurant 30 mins.Standin for national anthem: 52 secs. Tough?” questioned Gautam Gambhir in his latest tweet. The batsman found adequate support from his followers as they condemned the act of disrespecting the anthem as well.

Here’s the Tweet and its reactions

Standin n waitin outsid a club:20 mins.Standin n waitin outsid favourite restaurant 30 mins.Standin for national anthem: 52 secs. Tough?

— Gautam Gambhir (@GautamGambhir) October 27, 2017

Standing in Popcorn queue for 5-10 mins is fine for pseduo seculars but not for Anthem..#StandWithAnthem

— Annarao Patil (@AnnaraoPatil) October 27, 2017

क्या पॉप्कॉर्न के लिए लाइन में लगने वाले राष्ट्रगान के लिए 52 सेकेंड खड़े नहीं हो सकते ? जय हिन्द @GautamGambhir सर ???

— Navindra Rathore (@NavindraRathore) October 27, 2017

Gauti You are on point and best celebrity nationalist any day ..Proud of you

— ? ǫᴜᴇᴇɴ ?? (@TheQueen_008) October 27, 2017

It's our duty. Where we can stand around minutes on our choice, Standing for 52 seconds shouldn't be an issue

— Gautam Gambhir Squad (@gautiaddicts) October 27, 2017

Yes sir…you are right. pic.twitter.com/1YPfpdqnWO

— Madhumita GG ?? (@Gautian_Madhu) October 27, 2017

Yes its a duty its not a personal choice they are not saying to stand for another country's national anthem

— Mitul (@MrFantasticooo) October 27, 2017

Correction:
Standing for National Anthem- DUTY

— Pratik Deb ?? (@pratikdeb11) October 27, 2017

And no one is supposed to frce any1 to stnd.
We lve our country n we don't need 2 prove it at cinema hall whre it is played at time of entry

— Anil Kumar Singh (@Anilsingh0207) October 27, 2017

@GautamGambhir
U are 100% right
But it's not about standing for national anthem.
No one can ask anyone to prove their patriotism.

— Anil Kumar Singh (@Anilsingh0207) October 27, 2017

Standing up for national anthem is not nessasary and decided by supreme court
So no compulsory to stand

— DEBKANCHAN MITRA (@DEBKANCHAN) October 27, 2017

No one Compelled you to stand outside restaurant.
No one Compelled you to stand outside a club.
But National Anthem is being Imposed upon.

— Free World??? (@tarunkadian00) October 27, 2017