Farooq Abdullah hits out at Mehbooba over bhajans in school remark

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Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti
Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti

 

New Delhi

Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah has hit out at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti for her criticism of school children in a school in Kashmir being asked to recite bhajans.

“We rejected the notion of a two-nation state theory. India is both secular and non-communal. I am chanting bhajans. Is it wrong if I chant a bhajan?” the National Conference chief asked.

Farooq Abdullah was responding to a tweet posted by Mehbooba Mufti in which she criticized the singing of ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’ by students in a school in Kashmir.

The BJP too sharply criticized Mehbooba for her tweet.

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“Mehbooba should avoid playing such a type of politics in the name of religion. She has lost her ground in Kashmir and the people of the valley rejected her,” said BJP’s J&K president Ravinder Raina.