Policenama Online : India – England to play match on June 30 and on same hand, the congress and Samajwadi Party have opposed the orange jersey that will be sported by the Indian cricket team when they play against England in the 2019 world cup.
Muslim MLAs in the Maharashtra state assembly condemned the orange jersey donned by Team India. Abu Asim Azmi, a Samajwadi Party MLA, suggested that the government was behind the decision and said that the jersey was part of growing saffronisation in the country.
ICC says colour options were given to BCCI and they chose what they felt went best with the colour combination. The whole idea is to be different as England also wears a same shade of blue as India. The design is taken from India’s old T20 jersey which had orange in it. pic.twitter.com/PkPmsjmny6
— ANI (@ANI) June 26, 2019
“Modi Ji wants to saffronise the entire country. A Muslim was the only who designed the Indian Tricolour. There are other colours in the Tricolour, why choose only orange? Azmi said. Echoing the sentiment, former minister and Congress MLA Naseem Khan said that the Modi government was playing saffron politics.
According to ICC rules, all teams in the 2019 World Cup except hosts England, needed to have provisions for two different coloured kits. Currently, the Indian and England blue kits are similar. Therefore, India will wear their orange jersey for only 1 game.