Overview

• Sanjay Raut announced a statewide Sindoor Raksha Abhiyan on Sunday, with the party’s women’s wing set to demonstrate and send vermilion from homes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Raut labeled the decision to play Pakistan as “treason” and “shamelessness,” invoking the April Pahalgam attack that killed 26 and asserting Operation Sindoor is still underway.
• A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Vijay Bishnoi declined to urgently list a plea for an interim stay, keeping the India–Pakistan Asia Cup match on the September 14 schedule in the UAE.
• Targeting BJP leaders and cricket administrators, Raut called Jay Shah the “supreme authority in cricket,” while the BJP countered by calling the Shiv Sena campaign hypocritical.
• Other politicians, including Abu Asim Azmi and Supriya Sule, questioned allowing the fixture, citing the government’s past assertion that “blood and water cannot flow together.”