Veteran India golfer Jeev Milkha Singh on Wednesday urged the public to not tarnish the name of his father and legendary Olympian, late Milkha Singh, for his views on the 1947 Partition riots in a video that has resurfaced on social media. The 52-year-old golfer Jeev took to X to urge against misconstruing Milkha Singh’s thoughts for political and religious connotations. “We have learned that a video on my father’s thoughts from the time of 1947 partition riots is being used in religious and political connotations today. The Milkha family would request that the name of a late, respected national hero should not be tarnished. The Milkha family would request that the name of a late, respected national hero should not be tarnished,” Jeev wrote on X. Recounting ordeals of the Sikh community in the concerned video, Milkha Singh explained how several people of his community were slaughtered in his hometown village of Govindpura (now Basti Bukhari in present-day Pakistan). We have learned that a video on my father’s thoughts from the time of 1947 …