Indian sports' latest sensation Manika Batra has divided Twitter after wearing tricolour nail paint during her historic feat at the 2018 Commonwealth Games (CWG) on Sunday.

Manika guided the Indian women's table tennis team to a historic gold medal n Gold Coast, Australia. However, much of the talk after her incredible performance revolved around the choice of her nail art.

While many on social media were proud of Manika for being so patriotic, there were others who accused her of being a hyper-nationalist.

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Here are some tweets

Liberal: Heightened hypernationalism and Jingoism in Modi's India. Sheeesh that nailpaint! This is not the India I was born in. Manika Batra may have won Gold today, but lost the moral battle. pic.twitter.com/g0YW4hcCjx — गीतिका (@ggiittiikkaa) April 8, 2018

Manika Batra Helped Indian Women's Tennis Team Win A Gold At #CWG First Time In History. Her Nail Paint Is A Tight Slap On Face Of Libtards, Presstitutes And #TukdeTukdeGang Who Are Ashamed To Wear Nationalism On Their Sleeves. . #GC2018TableTennis #GC2018 #ManikaBatra pic.twitter.com/8Em4ruKYcY — Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) April 8, 2018

Manika Batra inspired India to a historic gold medal in the final of the women's Table Tennis team event at the #CommonwealthGames2018 Her Nail Paint is Tricolor JAI HIND Bharat Mata ki Jai pic.twitter.com/2q81QF6nVG — GAGAN ⚡SKY⚡ (@blue21sky) April 8, 2018

Manika Batra stands tall in front of Youth icons like Shehla, Rana, Gurmehar, who are forcefully pushed on us by leftists media. And yeah am not talking of physical height.#CommonwealthGames2018 — Whatever Bajrangi (@ipunamchoudhary) April 9, 2018

Wow, thats a sign of an utterly Nationalist !! Meet, Manika Batra...won Gold in TT in CWG #Salute. #AttaGirl#CWG18 pic.twitter.com/goQrW7XEmQ — Bobby Deol ( गंगा किनारे वाले ) (@IntolerantMano2) April 9, 2018

On Sunday, the Indian women's table tennis team put on a scintilating show on Day 4 of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games as they defeated defending champions Singapore 3-1 to claim gold.

This is India's first ever gold at the multi-sport event. They had earlier appeared in the finals at the home edition of the Games in 2010, whereas finished fourth in the Glasgow Games.

India took the lead with the help of Manika Batra's 11-8, 8-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-7 victory over World No. 4 Tianwei Feng. However, Singapore equalised the score after Mengyu Yu defeated Madhurika Patkar 13-11, 11-2, 11-6 in straight games.

India then won the next two matches. The duo of Mouma Das and Madhurika Patkar thrashed Yihan Zhou and Mengyu Yu 11-7, 11-6, 8-11, 11-7 as Indian retained the lead.

In the deciding game, Manika, playing her second match of the finals, came out all guns blazing and defeated Yihan Zhou 11-7, 11-4, 11-7 to guide her team to glory.

(Inputs from ANI)