BJP accuses Omar Abdullah of ‘taking support from terrorists’ after remarks on Afzal Guru’s hanging
The National Conference leader claimed that the Hindutva party had ‘struck a deal’ with some regional parties and independent candidates for Assembly polls.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has alleged that National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah was “taking support from terrorists” after the former chief minister said that the hanging of 2001 Parliament attack convict Adid not serve “any purpose”, reported ANI.
Guru was convicted of playing a central role in the conspiracy that led to the terror attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001. He was hanged in secret and buried within the Tihar jail premises in February 2013.
Speaking to ANI, Abdullah said on Friday: “The unfortunate thing was that the Jammu and Kashmir government had nothing to do with Afzal Guru’s execution. Otherwise, you would have had to do it with the permission of the state government, which I can tell you in no uncertain terms would not have been forthcoming.”
Following this, Kavinder Gupta, BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, accused Abdullah of trying to “create a situation by taking support from terrorists”.
“What does Omar Abdullah want to solve?” asked Gupta. “If anti-national elements who hatched a conspiracy against India are given the death penalty, why do they object to this?”
He added: “They are taking support from terrorists. That is why he is speaking such language.”
This comes ahead of elections to the 90-seat Jammu and Kashmir Assembly that...
