Srinagar : The National Conference Vice President and Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has hit back at cricketer Gautam Gambhir for his tweet over the slain scholar turned Hizb militant commander Mannan Wani. Abdullah replying to Gambhir’s tweet said, “This man wouldn’t be able to find Manan’s home district on a map much less his village & yet he presumes to know what drives young men in Kashmir to pick up the gun. Mr Gambhir clearly knows less about Kashmir than I do about cricket & I know almost nothing.”
Earlier, Gambhir through his tweet took a dig at the leading political parties of the state after Wani was killed in an encounter by government forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara area. Gambhir tweeted, “We killed a terrorist and lost a radicalised talent. @OmarAbdullah @MehboobaMufti @INCIndia @BJP4India all should bow their heads in embarrassment that they left a young man drift from books to embrace bullet.”
