This is one bouncer that former cricketer and Minister Navjyot Singh Sidhu, also called Sherry, cannot duck. Sidhu, the only Indian to attend Imran Khan's swearing-in ceremony as Pakistan's prime minister, is still hopping all over the crease at the fiery deliveries being hurled at him for hugging Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Major (retd) Devender Pal Singh, commonly known as D P Singh, first laughed at being asked to react to the hug that bugs. He lost his right leg in a mortar shell explosion, when India was fighting Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil war.

Focus on Kerala instead
"The action has been done, now what are we to do about this?" asked the Kargil war hero about the hug. According to Major Singh, time would be better spent, "debating and acting upon how we could contribute to the Kerala relief effort, instead of Navjyot Singh Sidhu's nonsensical action of hugging the Pakistan army chief." Major Singh did say that Sidhu's gesture was "personally painful, it was wrong and he was hugging the chief of an army who was responsible for my injury," but, "we have to be careful about getting swayed by politicians whose work it is to shout loud. Let me instead focus on the larger picture, which is helping and working for the country."