Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister, Nirmal Singh, on Saturday, called militant Burhan Wani's encounter as an accident a day after the state chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti told the media that Burhan would have got a second chance, had the Police and security personnel known about his presence.
"The forces didn't know that Wani was there at the spot else they would have taken precautions," Singh said. However, the deputy CM, in the same breath also said that Wani was a terrorist and terrorist should be dealt with in such a manner.
"Operations take place every day here and the process of identification starts only after an operation gets over," he said.
After seeing Nirmal almost parroting his Chief Minister, many in the valley perceive this to be a part of a concerted effort by the BJP-PDP alliance to calm the tempers in the valley.
Kashmir has been simmering for the last twenty two days and the clashes between protesters and security personnel have claimed forty seven lives after Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter on July 8.
Former Chief Minister of J&K, Omar Abdullah took to Twitter to express his disillusionment over the way the entire situation was handled by the ruling BJP-PDP alliance.
The CM had said that Burhan Wani would have been spared. Can we please have the J&K state government on same page? https://t.co/xk6Do0y8Ep— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) July 30, 2016
Oh so now Burhan's killing was deliberate? Unbelievable how many different versions of these events have been given! https://t.co/7bG8JWV2BL— Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) July 30, 2016
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