"Shocking and reprehensible! BJP J&K MLA, Lal Singh openly threatens journalists to 'fall in line and draw a line'. He horrifically says that otherwise they will meet the fate of Shujaat Bukhari by naming his brother," Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a tweet.
"Do BJP leaders have some special knowledge of the assassination," the Congress leader asked.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, who was a Forest Minister in the BJP-PDP (People's Democratic Party) government in the state, while addressing a press conference on the Kathua rape case on Friday alleged that the journalists in Kashmir created a wrong narrative in the horrific rape case.
"These Kashmiri journalists created a wrong narrative about it (the Kathua rape and murder). Now I tell Kashmiri journalists to draw a line on the journalism you do and how you have to live.
"Do you have to live like what happened to Basharat, so that such a situation emerges," Singh asked while issuing a threat to Kashmiri journalist.
Basharat Bukhari is Shujaat Bukhari's brother. Basharat was Law Minister in the PDP-BJP government before the saffron party pulled out of the alliance and the state came under the Governor's rule.
Shujaat, who was Editor-in-Chief of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, was assassinated by unknown gunmen outside his office on June 14, along with his two security guards.
"To avoid such a situation, manage yourself and draw a line (on reporting) and decide if you have to work the way he (Shujaat) was working," Singh said.
Singh had resigned from the cabinet in April following his participation in a rally organised by the Hindu Ekta Manch in January in support of those accused of rape and murder of a young girl in Kathua.
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