Mehbooba playing communal card in Jammu: BJP

Dismissing former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's claim that Gujjar and Bakerwal communities of Jammu region were being "selectively targeted" as "white lies", the BJP Monday accused her of playing "communal card".

"Mehbooba Mufti's statement about Gujjar and Bakerwal communities in Jammu are white lies and the PDP, as usual, is trying to play communal card in this peaceful region," BJP state spokesperson Balbir Ram Rattan told reporters.

"Unfortunately, under the governor's nose, there is selective targeting of Gujjars and Bakerwals in Jammu and the governor's administration is not taking note of it," Mehbooba had told a press conference in Srinagar on Sunday.

Terming Mufti's statement as "politics of provocation" and "highly condemnable", Rattan said "the people of Jammu region have always maintained communal harmony and never fallen pray to the divisive politics on the basis of region, religion and caste".

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