First make your children stone-pelters: Jitendra to separatists

UDHAMPUR: Lashing out at the separatists, Union minister Jitendra Singh today said whether they were ready to make their children stone-pelters for their “cause”.

Attacking the separatist leaders for giving a strike call tomorrow during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate the Chenani-Nashri tunnel, he said it become a “fashion” for them to give such calls.

Separatists had given a general strike call in protest against Modi’s visit to the State to inaugurate the country’s longest tunnel on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway.

Singh said that giving such calls has become a fashion for separatists and also a culture and tradition in Kashmir politics that “the so-called mainstream political leaders when they are out of power, they start using the language of the separatists and semi-separatists.” (AGENCIES)