NEW DELHI — BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Saturday said that National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s remarks about the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was an “expose of their nefarious, nasty, separatist anti-national design”.
Trivedi also targeted the Congress, an alliance partner of the NC in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election, saying that it “is showing their real nefarious design through proxy”.
In an interview, Abdullah had told ANI that he did not believe any purpose was served by “executing” Afzal Guru.
“The recent statement of the main alliance partner of INDIA alliance of the Congress party, their old family friend and former Chief Minister of J&K, Omar Abdullah, is nothing but a clear-cut expose of their nefarious, nasty, separatist anti-national design,” Trivedi told ANI.
“When Omar Abdullah says that Afzal Guru’s case was not fit for hanging, I would like to ask Congress if the investigating agencies working your regime wrong. Has the Supreme Court of India during the UPA government given a wrong judgment? I would like to remind the people of the country that in the judgment on the Parliament attack, SC used the word that this was a rare of the rarest crime. So whether the SC was wrong or the President of India,” he added.
He said that Congress cannot shed its responsibility by distancing itself from Omar Abdullah’s remarks.
“This is the same party that has given in its manifesto that they will restore Article 370 and Farooq Abdullah, the senior leader of the same party said in October 2020 that they will restore 370 with the help of China. Congress is showing their real nefarious design through proxy,” Trivedi said.
“They cannot shed their responsibility by saying it is their statement because Rahul Gandhi was present there giving moral support to those who were chanting ‘Afzal ham sharminda hai, tere katil zinda hai’,” Trivedi added.
BJP leader Manoj Tiwari also slammed Omar Abdullah’s remarks on Afzal Guru’s hanging.
“This statement of Omar Abdullah is a direct challenge to the Supreme Court’s verdict. Afzal was hanged because he planned an attack on the Parliament. The terrorists did not succeed in entering the Parliament but around a dozen of our security personnel lost their lives. Omar Abdullah siding with a terrorist is directly against the Supreme Court’s verdict,” Tiwari told ANI.
Jammu and Kashmir will go for assembly polls in three phases on September 18, 25 and October 1.
Votes will be counted on October 8. These are the first assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.
Omar Abdullah is contesting from two constituencies – Ganderbal and Budgam. Congress and the National Conference are fighting the polls together as allies. — (ANI)