Summary:
Indian Army soldier Rajendra Singh has succumbed to his injuries after being attacked with stones by some youth in Kashmir's Anantnag on Thursday. Hours after Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat slammed stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir following the death of a soldier in a stone-pelting attack in Anantnag, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said the mainstream politicians in Kashmir cannot go to the toilet without the Hurriyat Conference's permission. "I have no hesitation to add to that as far as the so called mainstream politicians (of Kashmir) are concerned, their situation is even worse, they take permission from Hurriyat to go to the toilet," Singh said. "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." Singh said if the jawan had open fire at the stone-pelters in self-defence, the same politicians would have cried hoarse accusing the security forces of violating the human rights of local Kashmiris..