Himachal Pradesh Congress on Sunday asked the BCCI to either cancel the proposed India-Pakistan WT20 match slated for March 19 at Dharamsala or shift the venue.
“BCCI should either cancel or shift the match to other state to honour the sentiments of families of martyrs,” HPCC president Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said.
He said Kangra is home to a large number of soldiers.
“Our party is not against holding other World Cup matches but only opposing the one against Pakistan as it would hurt the sentiments of the people, especially the families of martyrs,” he said.
Sukhu also asked the Secretary of BCCI and BJP MP Anurag Thakur to make his stand clear on the issue as “he had earlier conducted a march from Kolkata to lal Chowk in Kashmir to hoist national flag”.