Srinagar, Aug. 24 -- Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Sunday questioned the "silence" of Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi over the pellet gun victims of Kashmir while expressing concern about the victims in Delhi.

Lone asked why Gandhi's much-publicised concern over pellet gun injuries in Delhi was "nowhere to be found during years of mass blindings and gruesome pellet violence in Kashmir that left thousands permanently disabled and hundreds robbed of their eyesight forever".

Lone, while acknowledging Gandhi's recent move to press for an FIR over a pellet injury sustained in Delhi, demanded to know why the same moral urgency had "never" been extended to the Valley.

"May I, with all the humility at my command, beg to ask why th...