'Hurry to leave an ideological mark', Congress president angry over changing the colour of hockey team's jersey

Ahead of the upcoming FIH World Cup in the Netherlands and Belgium, the controversy over changing the colour of the Indian hockey team (men) jersey from blue to orange has deepened.   While Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey has sought answers from the federation officials raising questions about changing the color of the jersey, former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has also criticized it. On the one hand, Tirkey alleges that this decision was taken without the approval of him and the Executive Board. Now the Congress has raised questions in this whole matter. National President Mallikarjun Kharge has strongly criticized.

identity is not the colour of the jersey, but the heritage of Indian sports: Kharge

Mallikarjun Kharge targets RSS

He said, 'History knows that the RSS had strongly opposed the tricolour and Sardar Patel had also warned them. Sometimes on the pavement of the roads, sometimes on the clothes of the staff of Parliament, sometimes on the logo of the Doordarshan and now on the jerseys of the players – without a broad public consensus><.