BCCI’s acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has objected to the appointment of the cricket board’s new General Manager (Marketing) Priya Gupta.
Gupta, who was earlier an employee with The Times of India, had written an article in 2014 hitting out at actress Deepika Padukone.
The controversy started when The Times of India tweeted a video of Deepika with the caption:
“OMG! Deepika Padukone’s cleavage show”.
To which the actress replied saying:
“YES! I am a Woman. I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??”
Gupta hit back at Deepika, asking about her hypocrite behaviour. Gupta in an article wrote:
“Deepika, just for the record, we do not zoom into a woman’s vagina or show her nipples… What about all the times, and there have been many, when you have flaunted your body off screen – while dancing on stage, posing for magazine covers, or doing photo ops at movie promotional functions? What ‘role’ do you play there? So why the hypocrisy?”
However, Choudhary raised a question over Gupta’s appointment, and he wrote an E-mail to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, Committee of Administrators (CoA) and other BCCI officials. Choudhary mentioned the article written by Gupta as ‘Slut-shaming Deepika Padukone’, according to a report by The Indian Express.
Gupta chose to stay silent on the matter and said:
“I really have no clue about it and I don’t want to comment anything on it.”
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