When Yashpal Sharma and Chetan Chauhan saved 3 Sikh gamers together with Navjot Sidhu and Yograj Singh throughout the 1984 riots

Cricketer Yashpal Sharma, who was a part of the group that received the primary World Cup for India in 1983 and was generally known as ‘Mr Consistent’ handed away following a cardiac arrest on 13 July. His teammates and different cricketers have since been sharing posts and anecdotes remembering the time spent with him. 
An ever-smiling man, most know Sharma as a jovial, modest, useful and humble man, nonetheless, only a few know that he was equally gutsy. 
In a report on the late cricketer, The Times of India mentions that Sharma together with Chetan Chauhan had come to the rescue of three Sikh gamers of the North Zone group throughout the 1984 riots. 
The gamers needed to take a practice journey proper amidst the riots when Sharma requested Navjot Sidhu, Yograj Singh and Rajinder Ghai to cover in his compartment. 
Sarkar Talwar, one other cricket participant whereas narrating the incident of the four-day practice journey from Pune to Delhi after the cancellation of a match mentioned, “I remember Navjot was very scared. Chetan Ji ensured Yograj and Ghai were safe and not spotted by the mob. He showed tremendous guts in a situation that left most of us unnerved.”
Sharma and Chauhan additionally confronted a violent mob and shielded the Sikh gamers, maintaining them away from the eyes of the mob. 
Cricketer Navjot Singh Sindhu after quitting the Bhartiya Janta Party had joined Congress in 2017. Since then he has been a loyalist and was within the information recently for his assembly with Priyanka Gandhi. 
Reports counsel that Sidhu could turn into the following Punjab Congress chief simply forward of the Punjab state meeting elections.
Meanwhile, Yograj Singh- father of ex-cricketer Yuvraj Singh, has been within the information for all of the incorrect causes. Singh who actively participated within the ongoing farmer protests had made extraordinarily derogatory remarks in opposition to Hindus and Hindu ladies. 
In a video that went viral, Yograj Singh was heard saying “Yeh woh log hai jinhone hamare saath gaddari ki hai, yeh woh kaum hai jinhone hazaron saal gulami ki 5000, 7000 saal” roughly translated as (these are these individuals who have betrayed us, this neighborhood has been slaves for 1000’s of years).
This was, nonetheless, not the place he stopped. Yograj Singh humiliated Hindu ladies by saying “Inki aurate take-take ke bhaw bikti thi” (their ladies had been bought for 2 cents). When their ladies and daughters had been kidnapped by folks like Ahmed Shah Durrani and bought off for a paltry sum, it was we Sikhs who saved them, mentioned Singh.
Though Yograj Singh doesn’t explicitly point out Hindus within the movies, it’s clear from the speech that it’s what he meant.
Yograj Singh went on to focus on PM Modi and HM Amit Shah for being Gujaratis. He mentioned he had spent 15 years with Gujaratis in Mumbai. “These people would take a u-turn even if they swore on their mothers, sisters, and daughters,” he mentioned.
Making an absolute mockery of the state of affairs and possibly forgetting all concerning the 1984 riots Yograj urged the farmers to lift one other Bhindranwale amongst themselves. “Every person here is a ‘Jarnail.’ If you want to save Punjab, ensure that power is in your hands. If the power is in your hand, you will see a new sun rising from the land of Punjab,” he mentioned.
About the 1984 riots
The position of Congress within the 1984 riots just isn’t unknown. In truth, Rajiv Gandhi after the assassination of his mom had justified the riots. On nineteenth November 1984, whereas giving a speech in entrance of 1000’s of individuals, then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi mentioned, “Jab bhi koi bada ped girta hai, to dharti thodi hilti hai. (When a big tree falls, the earth shakes.)”
Congress chief Sajjan Kumar was a outstanding Congress chief in 1984, and he was sentenced within the homicide case of 5 members of a Sikh household. He was one of many foremost accused of the anti-Sikh riots, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his position within the riots in 2018 by the Delhi High Court.
In 2019, the Ministry of Home Affairs reopened a case in opposition to senior Congress chief and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath for his position within the riots. Kamal Nath had allegedly incited a mob in opposition to Sikhs at Gurudwara Rakabganj in Delhi on thirty first October 1984, quickly after Indira’s assassination. As per the studies, two witnesses got here ahead to depose in opposition to him.