Rohit Sharma's New Profile Pic Irks Social Media; Users Find It 'Disrespectful' Of Indian Flag

Rohit Sharma finds himself in hot waters as social media users express their anger towards his new profile picture.

Rohit Sharma lands in trouble as his new profile picture makes social media users angry.

Source : PTI

Rohit Sharma captained India to their second T20 World Cup victory a few days ago as they defeated South Africa in the T20 WC 2024 final. With the win, India broke an 11-year drought of an ICC championship and 13-year World Cup trophy drought. The World Cup victory saw the whole country of 1.4 billion people celebrating in grand manner. However, amidst all the celebrations, Rohit Sharma finds himself entwined in a controversy that involves the Indian tricolour flag.

Rohit finds himself in a tight spot after he changed his profile picture on social media that showcases him trying to plant the Indian tricolour flag into the ground at the Kensington Oval in Barbados moments after India registered the iconic victory under his leadership. 

Social Media Users Criticise Rohit Sharma Over His Profile Picture

Interestingly, his picture gained some negative attention as some social media users expressed their anger because the Indian flag appears to be touching the ground in the picture. Some outraged fans even pointed it out while citing the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971 that says “The (Indian) flag shall not be allowed intentionally to touch the ground or the floor or trail in water.”

Here's Rohit Sharma's New Profile Picture:

#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/aDJFxW8783

— Rohit Sharma (@ImRo45) July 8, 2024

Social media users tore into Rohit Sharma for letting the flag touch to the ground of the Kensington Oval Stadium in Barbados. One of the users called Rohit's action 'unnecessary' and 'over-the-top'

Here's a few of the social media reactions to Rohit Sharma's picture:

Shame on Rohit Sharma for disrespecting my beautiful national flag 👎 https://t.co/XQmVaDlm4e pic.twitter.com/MGh22JuFYV

— `` (@KohlifiedGal) July 8, 2024

The Flag shall not be allowed to touch the ground or the floor. According to the law that person punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine. https://t.co/RXG99DroGZ pic.twitter.com/LrUzjShWp5

— Lordgod 🚩™ (@LordGod188) July 8, 2024

flag code of India
Part - III ,section - IV, 3.20
“The flag shall not be allowed to touch the ground or the floor or trail in water”

it comes under incorrect display

Please @ImRo45 don’t disrespect the Indian flag !

I tweeted this the same day we won , but deleted the tweet https://t.co/lrIKHRVGgw

— Reddit_user (@reddit_user_) July 8, 2024

As much as I love Rohit Sharma, I also think it was a cringe gesture by him, the pole of flag was obviously not tall enough to be fixed in the ground and it kept falling again and again...he should've just waved it around...the flag touching the ground makes it worse.

— Akshit (@CaptainGzb) July 9, 2024