Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has criticised the BCCI after KKR released Bangladesh's Mustafizur Rahman from IPL on the board's instruction. Tharoor wrote on X, "What if the Bangladeshi player in question had been Litton Das or Soumya Sarkar? Who are we punishing here: a nation, an individual, his religion? Where will this mindless politicising of sport lead us?"