Mehbooba, Omar hit back at Shah for ‘Gupkar Gang’ description

People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference (NC) vp Omar Abdullah on Tuesday hit back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah on his tweet, describing the Gupkar alliance of seven political events as “Gupkar Gang”.

Also learn | Gupkar alliance rocky as companions area candidates in opposition to each other

“Old habits die hard. Earlier BJP’s narrative was that the ‘tukde tukde’ gang threatened India’s sovereignty and they are now using ‘Gupkar Gang’ euphemism to project us as anti nationals. Irony died a million deaths since its BJP itself that violates the constitution day in and day out”, mentioned Ms. Mufti in a tweet.

Questioning the BJP’s criticism of the alliance companions of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), she mentioned combating elections in an alliance “is also anti-national now”.

Ms. Mufti acknowledged, “BJP can stitch as many alliances in its hunger for power but somehow we are undermining national interest by putting up a united front”.

The BJP’s stale tactic of dividing India by projecting themselves as saviours and political opponents as inner and imagined enemies was far too predictable now. “Love jihad, tukde tukde and now Gupkar Gang dominates the political discourse instead of like rising unemployment and inflation”, she noticed.

Mr. Abdullah additionally took to Twitter to answer Mr. Shah’s tweet.

“We didn’t oblige them”

“I can understand the frustration behind this attack by the Home Minister. He had been briefed that the People’s Alliance was preparing to boycott elections. This would have allowed the BJP and newly formed king’s party a free run in J&K. We didn’t oblige them”, he mentioned.

It was solely in J&K that leaders could possibly be detained and known as anti-national for taking part in elections and supporting the democratic course of. “The truth is all those who oppose the ideology of the BJP are labelled ‘corrupt and anti-national’,” he acknowledged

Referring to the Gupkar alliance, he mentioned, “We are not a “gang” Amit Shah ji, we’re a reputable political alliance having fought and persevering with to battle elections, a lot to your disappointment”.

Mr. Shah had tweeted, “The Gupkar Gang is going global! They want foreign forces to intervene in Jammu and Kashmir. The Gupkar Gang also insults India’s Tricolour. Do Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji support such moves of the Gupkar Gang? They should make their stand crystal clear to the people of India”.

The change of tweets comes simply as J&K prepares to carry its maiden polls for the District Development Council from November 26.