Omar Abdullah, Gautam Gambhir Clash Over Tweet On Manan Wani

Manan Wani, PhD scholar-turned-militant, was killed in an encounter on 11 October.

Manan Wani’s death termed as loss of a‘radicalised talent’ by cricketer Gautam Gambhir.

(Photo Courtesy: Facebook/@Manan Wani)

Three days after PhD scholar-turned-militant Manan Wani’s death, National Conference’s Omar Abdullah replied to cricketer Gautam Gambhir’s tweet lamenting Wani’s switch from books to bullets.

Abdullah reacted by questioning Gambhir’s knowledge of the issue and Kashmir to make such comments.

Gambhir’s tweet blamed Abdullah, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party for driving a young man from from studies to militancy.

Omar Abdullah, in his tweet, said that Gambhir’s knowledge of Kashmir is less than Abdullah’s knowledge of cricket, which he according to him is ‘nothing’.

Manan, along with two Hizbul Mujahideen militants, died on Thursday, 11 October, in an encounter with security forces at Handwara in frontier district of north Kashmir.

The 27-year-old was a PhD scholar student at Aligarh Muslim University and was said to have joined militant ranks in January earlier this year.

On Thursday, 11 October, three students of AMU were said to be suspended for offering funeral prayers to Wani.