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Both leaders bonded on Twitter.
Updated : Jul 13, 2018, 07:43 PM IST
BJP leader Ram Madhav got involved in a Twitter repartee with former J&K CM Omar Abdullah over Mehbooba Mufti's warning to Centre regarding alleged attempts to split up PDP. Both leaders remembered their past association and Omar lamented over how things have changed now. However, according to Ram Madhav, BJP hasn't changed and other parties have started speaking in different tunes.
Shortly after People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti warned the Centre of dire consequences of breaking the party, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday asserted that breaking of a party will not give rise to militancy.
"Let me put this out here for all to remember NOT ONE NEW MILITANT WILL BE CREATED WITH THE BREAK UP OF THE PDP. People will not mourn the demise of a party created in Delhi only to divide the votes of Kashmiris," he tweeted.
Soon Ram Madhav tweeted a picture from 1987 to show what was the political situation at that time.
A 1987-vintage picture. ‘Delhi’ with Farooq Abdullah. D other leader in picture is easily recognisable, at least by Mehaboobaji, who accuses, wrongly, ‘Delhi’ for her own party’s internal problems.. pic.twitter.com/yDBIOEhGoW
— Ram Madhav (@rammadhavbjp) July 13, 2018
This was promptly 'quote tweeted' by Omar Abdullah who said, "
Here @MehboobaMufti, it takes your estranged friends & allies to remind you of your family history when you talk about 1987. https://t.co/ZrgedBO5X9
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 13, 2018
When Omar Abdullah spoke about estranged allies, Ram Madhav chimed in to say that National Conference and BJP were also allies at one point of time. Infact, Omar was a Minister in the Vajpayee government.
Remembering about that time, Omar Abdullah said,
We were but Vajpayee Sahib ka zamana kuch aur he tha, us dour ka kya kehna. Those days it was ‘insaniyat, jamhuriyat aur Kashmiriyat’. https://t.co/4beGBZ6o5I
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 13, 2018
However, Ram Madhav claimed that BJP remains the same and took the opportunity to take another potshot at PDP.
From our side it continues to be Vajpayee principle of Insaniyat, Jamhuriyat n Kashmiriyat only. D other side talks of Salahuddins n Yasin Maliks... https://t.co/yE3Sf4DKir
— Ram Madhav (@rammadhavbjp) July 13, 2018
On the sidelines of the Martyr's Day celebration earlier in the day, Mufti had said that any attempts made by New Delhi to break the PDP would be met by "dangerous outcomes."
"If Delhi tries to dismiss the voting rights of people like 1987, and if it tries to create divisions and interfere like that, then I think just like a Salahuddin and a Yasin Malik were born in 1987, there will be dangerous consequences (Agar Dilli ne 1987 ki tarah yahan ki awam ke vote pe daaka dala, agar iss kism ki tod fod ki koshish ki,jis tarah ek Salahuddin ek Yasin Malik ne janm liya...agar Dilliwalon ne PDP ko todne ki koshish ki uski nataish bahut zyada khatarnaak hogi)," she said.
Responding to the same, Abdullah opined that the remark could be a reflection of Mufti's desperation. "She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration," he tweeted.
With ANI inputs