Srinagar: On a day when Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, announced that she is joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and will be contesting the Lok Sabha Elections, Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti has hit back at the ruling party at the Centre.
In reference to Sadhvi Pragya’s move, Mufti, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, asked what would happen if her party had fielded a terror accused in elections. The media would have gone berserk, she added.
Taking aim at the BJP without naming it, Mufti said terrorism has no religion when it concerns ‘saffron fanatics’ but all Muslims are otherwise terrorists.
“Imagine the anger if I’d field a terror accused. Channels would’ve gone berserk by now trending a mehboobaterrorist hashtag! According to these guys terror has no religion when it comes to saffron fanatics but otherwise all Muslims are terrorists. Guilty until proven innocent (sic),” the PDP chief wrote on Twitter.
