Omar, Sajad fight it out on Twitter

Hitting out at Sajad Lone who had earlier called Modi as his “elder brother”, Omar claimed that people from north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, the former’s bastion, are being sent to attend the Modi’s rally at Sher-i-Kashmir stadium here.
“So @sajadlone is sending about 80 vehicles of supporters from Kupwara to help his “big brother” make up the numbers,” Omar tweeted.
He also expressed surprise over what he said Congress’ support for the rally. “Amazingly even Cong supported “leaders” have been asked to contribute people to the BJP rally. Politics makes for strange bedfellows :-),” wrote Omar.
Omar also took a dig at the PM NarendraModi, alleging that people were brought from Jammu for the former’s election rally in Srinagar.
Omar said: “2 trainloads of supporters are being brought in from Banihal in Jammu. Why not just have the rally there?”
Sajad Lone hit back calling the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as “the newest troll” on Twitter.
“@abdullah_omar so u r the newest troll on the scene. Best of luck in the world of trolls,” Lone wrote on Twitter, responding to Omar’s tweets.
On November 11, Sajad had met with the Prime Minister NarenderModi in New Delhi saying “he (Modi) was so large hearted that it was tough to say whether I was meeting PM of India or my elder brother.” However, Sajad had claimed that he didn’t discuss any politics with the PM but focused on developmental issues concerning Kashmir during the 40-minute meeting.
Lone’s reply on the micro-blogging site was retweeted 77 times and liked by 27 people.
Sajad later issued a statement saying the tweet by Omar Abdullah “insinuating that we arranged vehicles for Prime Minister’s rally is yet another sign of his drift into a state of complete delusion.”
“If we desired to help anybody we would do it openly, unlike Abdullah who attacks BJP by the day and goes down on his knees by the night,” Lone said.
Lone said “Omar should introspect and look within whether he is in a position to sermonize and lecture me.”
“This person who has been a poster boy of a BJP-led government in the past, this person who ordered killing of youngsters in the 2010 agitation, this person who endorsed and Okayed the hanging of Afzal Guru, this person’s father as Chief Minister signed the warrant of hanging of MaqboolBhat, this person’s party expelled SaifudinSoz for voting against BJP. This person’s father rejoiced when POTO (Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) was extended to J&K and expressed joy at POTO making an all India debut in J&K has the audacity to point fingers at someone who has never been in power,” he said.
Sajad said “let Omar answer how many people were detained under his or his father’s rule under the draconian PSA, how many people were killed in faked encounters under him and his father’s rule.”
“Donning the cap of a grieving Kashmiri is not as easy as Omar thinks. You can’t don the cap of a grieving Kashmiri and a hangman at the same time. On the contrary, let Omar know that while he was enjoying his stay outside J&K in the early nineties, I was jailed and interrogated and tortured like thousands of fellow Kashmiris. I take pride in being a commoner and having suffered like the rest of the common populace. I don’t have to prove my Kashmiri credentials to NC or for that matter the PDP. Let both of them have a peep into their past. I could write a book on the injustices against the people of Kashmir by the National Conference,” the PC Chairman said.
Sajad said Omar is “particularly frustrated because in all probabilities he is going to face defeat in both the constituencies at the hands of our candidates, Laldin Mir in Sonwarand  Dawood Bilal Lodhi in Beerwah.”
Elaborating, he said, “the duo is giving him a tough fight and Abdullah is venting his frustration by inventing stories against us,” Sajad said, adding, “It is also sad that he has brought the chair of Chief Minister into disrepute by spreading false information on twitter and actually going down to the level of a troll. Good luck to him in the world of trolls.”
In another tweet, Omar said; “Not a single BJP flag or banner on the vehicles or with the people I saw walking into the stadium. Such a telling sign of BJP support.”
CM’s residence is at a walking distance from the venue of Modi’s rally.