GUWAHATI: Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy , in a tweet on Tuesday, supported an appeal by an unnamed retired Colonel of the Indian Army to boycott ‘everything Kashmiri’, drawing vociferous reactions from many, including former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah, who called him a ‘bigot’.Roy’s response comes at a time when the entire country is witnessing widespread protests against the attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in which 40 jawans were martyred.Roy, who describes himself “Right-wing Hindu socio-political thinker, writer, ideologue” on Twitter, said, “An appeal from a retired colonel of the Indian Army: Don’t visit Kashmir, don’t go to Amarnath for the next 2 years. Don’t buy articles from Kashmir emporia or Kashmiri tradesman who come every winter. Boycott everything Kashmiri. I am inclined to agree.”Almost after an hour after Roy’s tweet, Omar Abdullah tweeted, “These are the bigots driving Kashmir over the abyss. While you are at it Tathagata, why don’t you stop using our rivers to generate your electricity as well?” In another tweet, Omar said, “People like Tathagata want Kashmir but without Kashmiris. They’d sooner see us driven in to the sea. He’ll be best placed to know he can’t have one without the other so what’s it to be?”Not to stay silent, Roy tweeted back, “Vociferously violent reactions from the media and several others to my ECHOING OF a suggestion from a retired army colonel. A purely NON-VIOLENT REACTION to the killing of our soldiers by the hundreds and the driving out of 3.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits.”Soon after, replying to another tweet, Roy said, “The Pakistan Army (who are handling the Kashmiri separatists) was among their own in East Pakistan in 1971. They slaughtered and raped right and left. And they would have kept EP but for the whacking from India. I am not suggesting that we go that far. But at least some distance?”Continuing his rhetoric in another tweet, Roy said, “Likewise the British Indian Army did untold atrocities in the Tamluk area of present-day Purba Medinipur during the Quit India movement. These bits of history must not be forgotten!”The governor, before getting down to thinking of supporting the Kashmiri boycott appeal by a retired army officer, reacted to a video showing stone pelters by tweeting, “What Major Leetul Gogoi did to prevent being hit by pelters’ stones is the least that can be done in self-defence. But that is NOT ENOUGH.” In 2017, Major Gogoi had tied a youth to his jeep in Kashmir and paraded him around.Two days ago, Roy had tweeted, “3 yrs back Paki singer Ghulam Ali came to sing in W Bengal. I had protested. Because Pakis were guilty of horrible atrocities on Hindus in erstwhile E Pakistan. Ananda Bazar Patrika immediately protested. Now after 3 yrs and loss of lives people are talking of not inviting Pakis.” The same day, Roy further tweeted, “Some Muktijoddhas of Bangladesh have come to Urs festival at Medinipur. Whoever can please ask about the condition of the Hindu women recovered from the Paki trenches in 1971. Many had their nipples bitten off, bayonets thrust into their vaginas. But we love Ghulam Ali! #Votebank.”

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