{"id":55195,"date":"2025-03-03T21:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/fat-for-a-sportsman-congress-leader-takes-a-dig-at-rohit-sharma-bjp-hits-back-7\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:41:22","slug":"fat-for-a-sportsman-congress-leader-takes-a-dig-at-rohit-sharma-bjp-hits-back-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/fat-for-a-sportsman-congress-leader-takes-a-dig-at-rohit-sharma-bjp-hits-back-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat for a sportsman Congress leader takes a dig at Rohit Sharma BJP hits back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed recently made controversial remarks about Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma, referring to him as &#8220;fat&#8221; and a &#8220;mediocre captain&#8221;. This criticism came despite Sharma&#8217;s recent success in leading the team to victory against New Zealand in the Champions Trophy. In response, BJP&#8217;s Shehzad Poonawalla came to Sharma&#8217;s defense, pointing out the Congress party&#8217;s past electoral setbacks and highlighting Sharma&#8217;s impressive achievements, such as winning the T20 World Cup. The exchange between the two political figures sparked a debate on social media and among sports fans in India. Sharma, known for his exceptional batting skills and strategic captaincy, has garnered a strong fan following over the years. As the controversy continues to unfold, it remains to be seen how it will impact Sharma&#8217;s reputation and the political discourse surrounding sports personalities in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress spokesperson Shama Mohamed recently made controversial remarks about Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma, referring to him as &#8220;fat&#8221; and a &#8220;mediocre captain&#8221;. This criticism came despite Sharma&#8217;s recent success in leading the team to victory against New Zealand in the Champions Trophy. In response, BJP&#8217;s Shehzad Poonawalla came to Sharma&#8217;s defense, pointing out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/todays-bulletin\/\" rel=\"category tag\">TODAY'S BULLETIN<\/a>","tag_info":"TODAY'S BULLETIN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}