Srinagar: As Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former minister erstwhile PDP-BJP coalition Chaudhary Lal Singh warned the journalists representing Kashmir media of “Shujaat-like incident”, former Chief Minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah took potshots at him, saying “it seems Shujaat’s death is now a tool for goons.”
“Dear journalists, your colleagues in Kashmir just got threatened by a @BJP4India MLA. It seems Shujaat’s death is now a tool for goons to use to threaten other journalists,” Omar said in a tweet reacting to Lal Singh’s threat.
Addressing a rally, the former forest minister in recently split Mehbooba Mufti led PDP-BJP coalition Chaudhary Lal Singh had threatened the journalists representing Kashmir media of “Shujaat-like incident” for creating “wrong narrative regarding the Kathua rape-and-murder case.”
Lal Singh was ousted from the cabinet for rallying in support accused in the brutal gangrape-and-murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua earlier this year.
“ (Kashmir’s journalists) have created wrong atmosphere about the whole case. Now, I would like to ask them to draw a line of journalism and think about how to live,” Singh said while demanding a CBI probe into Kathua case at a presser.
“It’s better to control yourself ( read journalists) before situation get worse,” he said, adding, “They (journalists) must draw a line so that brotherhood in the state remains intact and we also join the journey of development.”
