While the 40 CRPF jawans are being given a teary eyed farewell in Delhi, the Twitter erupts with angry reactions of the nation against Pakistan and Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's name is also trending with fans lashing out at him for allegedly defending the neighbour coutry. Strongly condemning the "cowardly" attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama by a Pakistan-based terror group, Sidhu on Friday asked whether an entire nation can be blamed for a handful of people.


Talking to reporters in Chandigarh after the Punjab Assembly was adjourned for the day in solidarity with the CRPF soldiers killed in the terror attack, the cricketer-turned-politician said, "It (the attack) is a cowardly act and I condemn it firmly. Violence is always condemnable and those who did it must be punished."

He also said - "For a handful of people, can you blame the entire nation and can you blame an individual?"

Asserting that terrorism has no caste or religion, Sidhu said, "For the last 71 years, this has been happening. Had they stopped ever?"

"For me, violence is always condemnable. I believe in non-violence throughout. Violence is no solution for anything. For me, non-violence is the most potent weapon to move forward," he added.

Sidhu was among the invitees for the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan as Pakistan prime minister last year and he was slammed for sharing a warm hug with IK then too.

Watch Sidhu talking about Pulwama Attack in the video below: 


Now his latest comments on Pulawama Attack have got the fans furious and they are threatening to boycott 'The Kapil Sharma Show' demanding Sidhu's ouster from the show.

The fans are posting angry tweets with some attaching the article pictures that talks about his Pulwama comments and the other sharing TKSS images.

Here's how upset fans are reacting to Sidhu's comments: 

 Fans react to Sidhu's Pulwama comment

 Fans react to Sidhu's Pulwama comment

 Fans react to Sidhu's Pulwama comment

 Fans react to Sidhu's Pulwama comment

And with the heavy trolling of Sidhu and appeals made to the comedy king, both of them are currently trending on Twitter.

Five CRPF personnel were also injured in Thursday's attack, one of the deadliest in Jammu and Kashmir, when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district. Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) has claimed responsibility for the attack that took place about 20 km from Srinagar.

More than 2,500 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, many of them returning from leave to rejoin duty in the Valley, were travelling in a convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway at Latoomode in Awantipora in south Kashmir around 3.15 pm on Thursday.

(with inputs added from PTI)