{"id":311167,"date":"2019-04-10T06:04:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311167"},"modified":"2019-04-10T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T06:04:42","slug":"mehbooba-mufti-blocks-gautam-gambhir-after-twitter-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mehbooba-mufti-blocks-gautam-gambhir-after-twitter-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehbooba Mufti blocks Gautam Gambhir after Twitter spat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti blocked cricketer-turned-BJP politician Gautam Gambhir on Twitter, after the two indulged in a heated argument on Article 370.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mehbooba had expressed her anger over the public interest litigation filed in Delhi High Court seeking a direction to ban Jammu and Kashmir politicians Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and herself from the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy waste time in court. Wait for BJP to scrap Article 370. It will automatically debar us from fighting elections since Indian constitution won\u2019t be applicable to J&K anymore. Na samjho gay tou mit jaouge aye Hindustan walo. Tumhari dastaan tak bhi na hogi dastaano main,\u201d Mehbooba tweeted on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gautam Gambhir responded by saying that this is India she was talking about, not a “blot like you which can be erased”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mehbooba Mufti reacted a few hours after Gautam Gambhir\u2019s tweet by commenting on his cricketing career. \u201cHope ur political innings in BJP isnt as abysmal as ur (your) cricket career! (sic),\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI worry for your mental health. Am used to people trolling but this level of stalking is unhealthy. Id imagine most people sleep at night. Better to since you dont know anything about kashmir . Here blocking you now so u can do the 2 rupee per tweet trolling somewhere else.\u201d She tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sparring continued as Gautam replied that her comment \u201cshows the lack of depth in personality\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh! So you have unblocked my twitter handle! U needed 10 hours to respond to my tweet and come up with such a pedestrian analogy!!! Too slow. It shows the lack of depth in ur personality. No wonder you guys have struggled to solve the issues at hand,\u201d Gautam tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mehbooba said on Tuesday, \u201cCricketers should stick to . Why wade into politics esp when it comes to issues like Kashmir? They have no knowledge about it. Take your aggression to the field and once you re done hang your boots with grace. Disgraceful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gautam expressed his gratitude in the most sarcastic terms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost welcome @MehboobaMufti Ma\u2019am, happy to be blocked by a callous individual. By the way, at the time of writing this tweet there are 1,365,386,456 Indians. How will you block them?\u201d Gautam asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier cricketer turned politician had also gotten into an argument on Twitter with Former chief minister Omar Abdullah over the latter\u2019s statement that his party would work towards restoring the post of \u201cprime minister\u201d in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti blocked cricketer-turned-BJP politician Gautam Gambhir on Twitter, after the two indulged in a heated argument on Article 370. Mehbooba had expressed her anger over the public interest litigation filed in Delhi High Court seeking a direction to ban Jammu and Kashmir politicians Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[6722,1376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311169,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311167\/revisions\/311169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}