Farooq supports Omar's remark on Afzal Guru
Friday September 02, 2011 08:10:48 PM,
IANS
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Delhi:
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah Friday said the remarks of his son
and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on parliament
attack convict Afzal Guru were "frank and true".
Farooq Abdullah, union minister for new and renewable energy, said
his son had "frankly" tweeted that if the state assembly had
passed a resolution like the Tamil Nadu assembly did seeking
clemency for the three slated to be hanged in the Rajiv Gandhi
assassination case, the "uproar would have been far greater than
what has happened in Tami Nadu".
"Nobody has even taken a note (of the Tamil Nadu assembly
resolution) and had it been Afzal Guru they would have created a
ruckus," Abdullah told reporters here.
"He is a young chief minister and I think he should continue to
speak what is inside him...time has come when he should speak what
is inside him rather hiding it...that is what India needs...India
needs truth and you should have the courage to speak truth," the
elder Abdullah said.
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