Since retiring from the game as an international cricketer, former India player Sanjay Manjrekar has been very vocal with his views about cricket through various platforms.
Sanjay has always come across honestly and straightforward with his opinions on the game. Through commentary, expert analysis and his articles and now even the book, Sanjay has been a respectable voice to hear.
Sanjay”s forthrightness can be a problem at times, though. Being an expert who likes to keep the emotions aside in his assessments, Sanjay has often come across critical to people about the playing cricketers.
Sanjay”s straight talk and unfeared approach are misunderstood at times. His opinionated and theoretical nature is not limited to just cricket. Sanjay has always stood out as one of the first persons to give his views away about other fields too. Through social media network Twitter, Sanjay has been very articulated about Politics, the country and various other issues concerning the society right now.
On one such occasion recently, Sanjay who is in Srilanka right now working as a commentator for the Nidahas Trophy, tweeted a picture of the beautiful and naturally fulfilling Island nation Srilanka.
But, what got him into trouble was the caption to the image.
He captioned the pic with, “Give Mumbai a nice scrub and you will get Colombo. #AlreadySwachhSriLanka “
Give Mumbai a nice scrub and you will get Colombo.#AlreadySwachhSriLanka pic.twitter.com/zRbIsrt837
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) March 15, 2018
Expressing his criticism of the pollution issue surrounding Mumbai city right now. And how it pales in comparison to the neatness & cleanliness of Srilanka as a country with a very low pollution rate. The problem is a massive one around India, though. Sanjay being a mMumbaikarsingled out his home land, the economical hub of the nation.
Sanjay”s caption hasn”t been taken well by the residing public of India and Mumbai especially. People are actually trolling him for it over twitter. Many made their anger clear in the reply section of the tweet by Manjrekar. Asking him what he has actually done to correct the problem. Sanjay made his views very clear again, though.
https://twitter.com/sureshtv/status/974280449660014592
Sri Lanka is very small country. Yes with you it's clean. We all are with #SwachBharat, will take us time to get cleaner, mission is ON, but we must also consider all aspects when we compare to Colombo….
— Vir Goradia (@virgoradia) March 15, 2018
BUT Colombo is nothing as compared to Mumbai
— Sanjay sharma (@sanju00078) March 15, 2018
Population of Mumbai is same in fact more than the whole of Sri Lanka #consider_that
— Kunal (@kunal_kano) March 15, 2018
Who criticise sanjay bhai.. bhai pahle khud sudhro desh sudhar jayega
— TanzTadka (Modi ka parivar) (@TanzTadka) March 15, 2018
Only tweets, no work to improve ur homeland.. height of mediocracy n hypocrisy…wen did u clean Mumbai beaches last
— CA Amit Sharma (@AmitSha40565968) March 15, 2018
Give Sanjay Manjrekar a nice scrub and you will get Sanjay Bangar…
— LaidOffEngineer (@LaidOffIndian) March 15, 2018