Ramjas Row: Yogeshwar Dutt reacts to Javed Akhtar's 'hardly literate' tweet

Lyricist Javed Akhtar on Tuesday (February 28) lashed out at former cricketer Virender Sehwag and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt for trolling Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur on social media.

He wrote: "If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr its understandable but whats wrong with some educated folks."

If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr its understandable but whats wrong with some educated folks

— Javed Akhtar (@Javedakhtarjadu) February 28, 2017

Dutt, who is a wrestler, replied to Akhtar's tweet saying:

@Javedakhtarjadu जी,आपने कविता-कहानी की रचना की तो हमने भी कुछ कारनामे कर छोटा ही सही भारत के लिए विश्वपटल पर इतिहास रचा है @virendersehwag https://t.co/XIGOJ1hPMp

— Yogeshwar Dutt (@DuttYogi) February 28, 2017

Sehwag had tweeted:

Bat me hai Dum !#BharatJaisiJagahNahi pic.twitter.com/BNaO1LBHLH

— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February 26, 2017

Dutt had tweeted:

pic.twitter.com/SiH90ouWee

— Yogeshwar Dutt (@DuttYogi) February 28, 2017

Twitter users reacted to Akhtar's tweet, which has already got over 2,100 replies, 950 likes and 650 retweets in less than an hour:

@Javedakhtarjadu All the Jehadi Commie sleeper cells have been activated.

— Bong Connection (@BongConnections) February 28, 2017

@Javedakhtarjadu tujhe india pak ke alawa aur kahin koi jaanta bhi nahi hai... aukaat mein reh literate gadhe.. — Saeber (@Saeber4U) February 28, 2017

For those who weren't aware..
this is what @Javedakhtarjadu had to say about Tarun Tejpal.

A rapist was a "man of values" pic.twitter.com/rp1n878qEc

— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) February 28, 2017

@Javedakhtarjadu Pagal hai kya? Tere se zyada desh ka naam roshan kiya hai us cricketer ne.. apni degrees apne pichwade mein ghused le.. — Saeber (@Saeber4U) February 28, 2017

@Javedakhtarjadu ab aap troll kiye jaoge... Aur sir troll hum nhi keyboard karega

— संगम वाले बाबा™ (@SangamWaleBaba) February 28, 2017

What qualifies 'educated' lot who earn by selling their pen to comment on such matters @Javedakhtarjadu ? https://t.co/zBi7QYIZqs — Dhongi Monk™ (@DhongiMonk) February 28, 2017

@Javedakhtarjadu Javed the world is much more than Pighle Neelam sa ye jahan, have you ever stepped out of your air conditioned world?

— TheFrustratedIndian (@FrustIndian) February 28, 2017

Okk so now to defend that girl @Javedakhtarjadu is insulting our sportsperson, pride of our Nation who represented India at Intl level pic.twitter.com/qnpsFGpGpf — Humor Silly - HMP (@Humor_Silly) February 28, 2017

.@Javedakhtarjadu It is true that most of the Indians are hardly literate in the art of Communism, JIhadism & Taqiya

— Dr. Urchin Spock (@UrchinSpock) February 28, 2017

@Javedakhtarjadu These hardly literate brought us laurels, made India proud. What is ur achievement .. barring Bollywood who knows you — Dr Shobha (@DrShobha) February 28, 2017

@Javedakhtarjadu Educated idiots were dining with Ghulam Fai while Barely educated soldiers were endangering lives fighting Fai's fidayeen

— Innov8 (@pliersnwires) February 28, 2017