Jawan attack: Whoever wants Azadi leave now, says Gambhir

Images of a stone pelter hitting a CRPF jawan have emerged soon after the elections, leaving the nation enraged. Both the ace cricketers expressed their anger on social media. “For every slap on my army’s Jawan lay down at least a 100 jihadi lives.

 Whoever wants Azadi LEAVE NOW! Kashmir is ours. #kashmirbelongs2us,” an angry Gambhir wrote on his twitter handle. “Anti-Indians hav forgotten dat our flag also stands 4: saffron - fire of our anger, white - shroud for jihadis, green - hatred 4 terror,” Gambhir wrote in another tweet. 

Sehwag was also disturbed by the images, said: “This is Unacceptable! Can’t do this to our CRPF jawaans. This rot has to stop. Badtameezi ki hadd hai.” 

A video emerged on social media that showed youths assaulting a jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Srinagar. The CRPF jawan, in the video, is seen being heckled, kicked and beaten up by a group of youths.

A mere two per cent turnout was witnessed in repolling held in 38 polling stations of Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, making it the lowest percentage in the state’s history, election officials said. However, the overall percentage in the entire constituency now stood at 7.13 per cent, the officials said. 

The situation was by and large peaceful during Thursday’s electoral exercise which had been necessitated because of large-scale violence on last Sunday when balloting was held in the entire constituency. “Only 709 of the 34,169 voters exercised their franchise across all the 38 polling stations by the time the polling ended at 4 pm,” an election official said.