India, Dec. 19 -- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday weighed in on the ongoing controversy over a viral video in which Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was seen pulling a niqab (veil) off a Muslim woman's face.

When asked about Union Minister and BJP MP Giriraj Singh supporting Nitish Kumar's action, Omar Abdullah said he expects nothing else from the party. Abdullah also said that the BJP would've caused a huge uproar had he taken off a Hindu woman's 'ghunghat'.

"If it had been a Hindu woman from Rajasthan or Haryana, wearing a veil, and I had removed it, would the BJP have said the same thing? Imagine the uproar if a Muslim leader had removed the veil of a Hindu woman. But now, because it was a Muslim woman do...