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| Omar’s tweet triggers controversy, attracts scathing criticism | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 31: What he thought was a reasonably justified tweet has landed State Chief Minister in the centre of another controversy. The BJP on Wednesday termed as 'unfortunate' and 'shocking', Omar Abdullah's tweet on Tamil Nadu assembly passing a resolution pleading for clemency to Rajiv Gandhi's killers.
Omar Abdullah kick started a controversy when he tweeted about the Tamil Nadu assembly passing a resolution pleading that the death sentence given to three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi be commuted.
"If J&K assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru would the reaction have been as muted? I think not," he tweeted on Tuesday. He was referring to the Parliament attack convict who is on death row in Delhi and belongs to Tarzoo village near Sopore town in Baramulla district.
Abdullah's tweet sparked a barrage of reactions, and he has now been asked to elaborate on his tweet.
The Congress on Wednesday also distanced itself from Omar's views saying that they were his personal tweets.
Slamming Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister for his remarks on the delay in hanging of Rajiv Gandhi's assassins, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday said that the Omar's reaction was "shocking and unfortunate".
Senior BJP leader, Balbir Punj said, "This is wrong. BJP's stand has always been clear. Omar Abdullah is only aggravating the situation. If there was a wrong precedence from the Tamil Nadu government, it does not mean the other governments should also react in a similar manner."
On Tuesday, the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a unanimous resolution asking the President to reconsider mercy petitions of three death row convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
The resolution moved by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa appealed to the President to commute the death sentences of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan into life sentences.
Moving the resolution, Jayalalithaa had said the people of the state were "saddened" by the fact that the death sentence to the three was to be executed soon.
Meanwhile, the Madras High Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks the execution of three Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts.
The three -- Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan-- lodged in Vellore Jail, were scheduled to be hanged on September 9.
Granting the interim stay, a bench comprising justices C Nagappan and M Sathayanarayanan noted a submission that there had been a delay of over 11 years in the disposal of the mercy petitions filed by the convicts to the President seeking clemency.
Meanwhile, Dr. Jitendra Singh, BJP national executive member and chief spokesman for J&K has issued a rejoinder to Omar Abdullah's tweet on Afzal Guru.
In his rejoinder, the BJP spokesman said, "This statement can be responded to at three levels:-
a) Issue of Propriety--It amounts to questioning the wisdom of a Supreme Court judgment and passing a judgment over a judgment and that too by a person who is himself a state office-bearer sworn in under the oath of the same very constitution that he is questioning.
b) It is contrary to popular opinion across India and is motivated by sheer urgency to appease the separatist and semi-separatist constituency within Kashmir valley.
c) If the person making this statement was genuinely sympathetic to Afzal Guru or his cause, he should have quit as minister in BJP led NDA govt when the attack on Parliament took place. Political opportunism cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it too sharing loaves and fishes of power alternatively with BJP/NDA and Congress/UPA depending on the expediency of the moment. |
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