On NDTV's Walk The Talk show, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav agrees with Gurmehar Kaur's view on her father's martyrdom. Referring to the recent controversy surrounding the Delhi University student's post, he calls BJP-linked student union ABVP, the 'goondas' who don't know anything about nationalism and questions the if the organisation has ever done anything for the soldiers who were martyred in various insurgency operations across the country.
