Criticising their stoic silence over the killing of a soldier by a stone-pelting mob in the valley, Union minister Jitendra Singh Saturday said the mainstream Kashmiri politicians cannot go to the toilet without the Hurriyat Conference's permission.
The minister was responding to a question on former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti staying mum on the death of Sepoy Rajendra Singh, who passed away at a hospital here on Friday after sustaining head injuries during stone-pelting by a group of youths.
The Army jawan was providing security to a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) convoy on Thursday. At around 1800 hrs, when the convoy was passing through the Anantnag bypass tri-junction near NH-44, few youths hurled stones at the vehicle and Singh was hit by a stone on the head.
"Yesterday, I and (state) governor (Satya Pal) Malik were together in a programme and he said about the Hurriyat that they take permission from Pakistan to go to the toilet."