BJP should use same yardstick to describe people’s actions, Omar on Patra’s comment

Srinagar, Aug 5 : Reacting to BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra’s comment asking for respecting emotions of people who attacked Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said the ruling party at the Centre should use the same yardstick to describe people’s actions and emotions in Kashmir when talking about protests here. 'I would request the BJP to use the same yardstick to describe people's actions and emotions in Kashmir when talking about protestors here,' Mr Abdullah, who is the working president of National Conference, wrote on micro-blogging site twitter. Mr Abdullah was reacting to Mr Patra’s comment asking for respecting people’s emotions. 'Don't call people goons. Don't call public as rowdy elements. Let's respect people's emotions,' said Mr Patra while reacting to Mr Gandhi’s attack. 'It would only be in the fitness of things to use the same yardstick given the whole integral part of India status that J&K enjoys,” the NC Working President wrote. Reacting to YSR Congress leader Jaganmohan Reddy’s statement that Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu should be shot in public for his double speak, he said, 'There is something seriously wrong when our political discourse sinks to this level.' 'Opposing someone or their polices shouldn't sink to this,' he said. UNI