In what can bring in huge embarrassment for the Congress, MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday opined that the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru was “wrong and badly” handled.
Tharoor, Congress MP from Kerala, today wrote on Twitter account: “I think the hanging was both wrong &badly handled. Family should have been warned, given a last meeting & body returned.”
Notably, Guru was hanged by the then Congress-led government on February 9, 2013 inside Tihar Jail in Delhi.
Tharoor’s statement comes after five Jammu and Kashmir lawmakers called Guru’s hanging a ‘mistake’. The Congress MLAs have given a written undertaking admitting that not allowing his family to meet Guru was a mistake.
Meanwhile, several separatists leaders were detained or put under house arrest and prohibitory orders clamped in Srinagar in the wake of protests called by them on the second anniversary of execution of Afzal Guru today.