After Neeraj Chopra explained he sent invitation for Bengaluru javelin event to Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem before Pahalgam terror attack and revealed he is facing hate online, Yogeshwar Dutt defended Neeraj. "You neither need to prove your patriotism nor...yourself," he said. He added, "People who speak nonsense are trivial ideological people who are neither concerned about country nor patriotism."