Is Sania Mirza’s appointment as the Telangana’s brand ambassador justified?

Is Sania Mirza’s appointment as the Telangana’s brand ambassador justified?

Controversies are an important part of life. Well, this time again the controversy is related to Sania Mirza who has always stayed in news for disrespecting the India’s National flag or for her irrelevant dress codes at various places. BJP Minister K Laxman raised his voice and opposed the decision of making her the brand ambassador of Telangana. After the protest, Sania Mirza is shouting loud that she was Indian and she will stay Indian. However, in such a scenario do you think - Is Sania Mirza’s appointment as the Telangana’s brand ambassador justified?

Yes

• Politicians and Media are just making haste out of waste. The matter of brand ambassador is a trivial matter and it doesn’t matters if she becomes one.

• Sania Mirza is married in Pakistan but she is a citizen of India and she has every right to represent a state of India.

• She is the one who brought dignity to the country by getting the highest individual ranking of 27. She won 15 titles in singles and 24 titles in doubles.

• All the different celebrities from different regions endorse the companies, then why a sport icon of India cannot represent a state of India.

• The remark of BJP minister K Laxman is not supported by the party itself. They called Sania as the daughter of India.

• Muslims are a minority group but very much part of a country. So just differentiating Sania on basis of caste grounds is not fair.

• Telangana clause says that any family living before 1956 is a part of state, and Sania’s family is living in the country since much before 1950.

No

• A brand ambassador was very busy defending her new role. She didn’t even spend a minute to tweet about the sad accident that happened in Telangana.

• Look at the pictures of London Olympics 2012 where she didn’t even carry the India’s National flag whereas other representatives were holding it with pride.

• Late back in 2006, instead of focusing on her game, she went to Hyderabad chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy and demanded the land for opening a tennis academy. She was already allotted the land and the funds for the purpose.

• She refused to play with an Israeli player in 2006 as she was afraid of the protest of the Islamic community and later on went to team up with another Israeli player at her own wish.

• She never considered it important to present her country with a proper dress code. It was reflected again when she broke the necessary dress code in Beijing Olympics 2008.

• It is not just once when she was even accused of showing disrespect to India’s National Flag. It was again seen during the Hopman Cup 2008 in Australia.

• Now when she has married a Pakistani Cricketer, it won’t be right for the Indian states to go ahead and make her brand ambassador.

• Sania Mirza had no right to become the brand ambassador as she was never a part of the agitation to make a separate state of Telangana.

Conclusion

Sania Mirza becoming a brand ambassador of Telangana is not a big issue. Unnecessarily the political parties and media are making it (one). But when now it has become an issue, it is necessary to bring in note that before Sania calls herself an Indian she needs to look at her past actions. She might have won many medals but it was just not for country. It was also for her individual interest of attaining success. So, just being a sport icon doesn’t make her fit to become a brand ambassador of an Indian state.