chandigarh political leaders of punjab cutting across party lines came out in support of leftarm pacer arshdeep singh who faced online trolling after indias loss to pakistan in the world asia cups super 4 match on sunday after he dropped a catch of asif ali many of them tweeted with the hashtag istandwitharshdeepterming the 24yearold cricketer from mohali a player full of potential punjab sports minister gurmeet singh meet hayer also spoke to arshdeeps mother baljit kaur over the phone and assured her that the entire country stood firmly behind arshdeep hayer said when arshdeep would return to india he would personally welcome himhayer also tweeted victory or defeat is given in the game arshdeep is an upcoming star who carved out a niche in a short span performed excellently against pakistan regressive psyche to troll him on the drop of just a catch arshdeep is the future of the nation an inspiration for youth hate has no place in sportsformer chief minister capt amarinder singh said in a facebook post quite unfortunate that arshdeep is being mocked over a dropped catch such things happen in sports particularly under such tremendous pressure we must support and encourage our sports heroes arshdeep dont get disheartened you have a long and glorious career aheadpunjab congress president amrinder singh raja warring tweeted the match statistics of arshdeep with the caption proud of you arshdeep his party colleague and leader of opposition lop partap singh bajwa said we are proud of you arshdeep singh dont let online trolls affect your positivity and energy next match the nation will look forward to an amazing performance by youaap rajya sabha member raghav chadha described the hate directed at arshdeep as appalling let us cut that young man some slack arshdeep is an amazing talent and will lead the indian bowling attack in the coming years no hate can pull him down he saidthe congress mp from anandpur sahib manish tewari described people maligning arshdeep as enemies of the nation pathetic is the word for them cricket between indopak is unfortunately more than just a match we stand by him he saidcricketerturnedpolitician harbhajan singh slammed those saying cheap things about the bowler stop criticising young arshdeep singh no one drops the catch purposelywe are proud of our boys pakistan played better shame on such people who are putting our own guys down by saying cheap things on twitter about arsh and the team arsh is gold he saidshiromani akali dal sanyukt leader and former finance minister parminder singh dhindsa demanded strictest action against those trolling abusing and defaming arshdeep a big conspiracy has been hatched to troll arshdeep and the centre should take strict cognizance of the same a special investigation should be carried out by intelligence agencies he said instead of demoralising players in such a situation we should support and encourage them added dhindsasad president sukhbir singh badal too came out in support of the cricketer we are first and foremost indians hindu muslim