Srinagar, Sept. 6 -- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today questioned the use of a government emblem on a stone installed at a religious site, terming it "unnecessary" and an affront to public sentiment.
Omar was reacting to an incident where a group of worshippers allegedly defaced the inauguration plaque bearing the National Emblem of India at Srinagar's revered Hazratbal shrine. BJP leader and Chairperson of the J&K Waqf Board Darakhshan Andrabi called it "terrorism" and demanded an FIR against the accused.
"First of all, the question is whether the stone should have had an emblem or not. I have never seen such an emblem being used in any religious institution or function. So what was the compulsion to use an emblem on this stone?" Omar a...