The executive of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee also criticised the Secretary of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and BJP MP Anurag Thakur for the decision to hold the match in Dharamsala.
"BCCI should either cancel or shift the match to other state to honour the sentiments of families of martyrs," HPCC president Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said.
Sukkhu also demanded that 50 per cent income from eight other matches to be played at the same venue be disbursed among the kins of those who laid down their lives in successive wars against Pakistan or during anti-terror operations.
"Our party is not against holding other World Cup matches but only opposing the one against Pakistan as it would hurt the sentiments of the people, especially the families of martyrs," he said.
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Sukhu also asked the BJP MP Anurag Thakur to make his stand clear on the issue as "he had earlier conducted a march from Kolkata to Lal Chowk in Kashmir to hoist national flag".
Meanwhile, the Himachal Pradesh Ex-servicemen league, which has been opposing the match, has now shot off a letter to Prime minister Narendra Modi to prevail upon the BCCI to abandon it in the wake of the attack by Pakistani terrorists on Pathankot Airbase in which two jawans from the state were killed.
President of the League Vijay singh Mankotia, in his letter to the PM said since the people are still mourning the deaths of their brave soldiers, they would not "relish" the slogans of 'Pakistan Zindabad'by Pakistani supporters during the match.
Mankotia said close on the heels of the Pathankot attack, two more Himachali jawans were killed during an encounter in Pulwama.
Notably, Former Chief Minister and BJP MP Shanta Kumar and former BJP MLA Rakesh Pathania have also opposed the match. Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has said he would apprise the Prime Minister about sentiments of the people.