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BJP MLAs beat up Independent legislator in Jammu and Kashmir

by IBNS 07 Oct 2015, 08:56 pm

Srinagar, Oct 8 (IBNS) Several Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators on Thursday morning assaulted an Independent MLA, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, for allegedly hosting a beef party a day ago, triggering a new controversy over the episode that created communal tensions already after the Dadri incident when a Muslim man was killed.

While condemnation poured in, the MLA concerned said it is a shame on Indian democracy that he was beaten up like that. 

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed condemned the assault.

However, deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh, who is from BJP that runs the government with Mufti's People's Democratic Party (PDP), was quoted on NDTV saying that though he does not approve of the beating, the "way he organised the beef party at the MLA hostel was not right."
  
Opposition leaders in Kashmir flayed the BJP. 

Walking out in protest, former chief minister Omar Abdullah slammed the BJP and said "if our members had not saved Engineer Rashid they would have killed him inside the house."