Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir, who recently sparred with Omar Abdullah on the issue of autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday exchanged sharp barbs with another former J&K chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, who ended up blocking him on Twitter.
Gambhir, who joined BJP last month, had a go at the PDPleader after she claimed that scrapping Article 370 will mean India’sConstitution will no longer be applicable in the state and that if Indians donot understand it, they will “disappear” and their “story willbe over”.
Gambhir retorted to her remarks, saying “This is Indianot a blot like you that it will disappear,” drawing a sharp response fromMufti.
She said, “Hope your political innings in the BJP isnot as abysmal as your cricket career.”
Their exchanged turned worse with Gambhir hitting back,”Oh! So you have unblocked my twitter handle! You needed 10 hours torespond to my tweet and come up with such a pedestrian analogy! Too slow. Itshows the lack of depth in your personality. No wonder you guys have struggledto solve the issues at hand.”
Mufti then took a dig at him, saying she worried for hismental health and that she is used to people trolling but this level ofstalking is unhealthy. “Here blocking you now so you can do the 2 rupee pertweet trolling somewhere else,” she said, adding that he does not knowanything about Kashmir.
Gambhir responded, “Most welcome Mehbooba Mufti Ma’am,happy to be blocked by a callous individual. By the way, at the time of writingthis tweet there are 1,365,386,456 Indians. How will you block them?”
Gambhir and Abdullah exchanged sharp words last week after the National Conference leader stated that his party would strive to restore Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy that could include having a ‘Wazir-e-Azam’ (Prime Minister).