Abdullah said Gambhir should remain silent as he had been a cricketer and knew nothing about the burning issue.
What's in the previous job? You ask.
We say, a lot.
The altercation between senior National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and newly inducted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gautam Gambhir on Twitter took a whole new turn when, on Tuesday, the former asked the latter to not comment on the Kashmir issue.
Abdullah said Gambhir should remain silent as he had been a cricketer and knew nothing about the burning issue.
To this end, Gambhir's senior in the party, Nupur Sharma took to Twitter and reminded Abdullah he was once a hotel receptionist.
"Spare Kashmir the agony. Stick to the stuff you know about - being a Hotel receptionist," she tweeted, on Wednesday.
But Omar Abdullah felt it was an attack on his humble beginnings and thereafter began another war over dynasty politics.
He said: "The arrogance of these people. Their leader's humble origins are bragged about. My small start is something I'm supposed to be ashamed of. There is dignity in any honest job and I'm proud of how I started."
Sharma replied: "Surely Gautam Gambhir is proud of how he started. So is the PM. Still dynastic-roots are not the path to political acumen."
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
It all started with Gautam Gambhir tweeting to disapprove Omar Abdullah's comments on the Kashmir issue.
Gambhir tweeted: "@OmarAbdullah wants a separate PM for J&K & I want to walk on oceans! @OmarAbdullah wants a separate PM for J&K & I want pigs to fly! More than a separate PM @OmarAbdullah needs some sleep followed by a strong coffee! If he still doesn’t understand then a green Pakistani passport"
In response, Abdullah posted on Twitter: "Gautam,I never played much cricket because I knew I wasn’t very good at it. You don’t know very much about J&K,it’s history or the role of @jknc_ in shaping that history yet you insist on displaying that ignorance for all to see. Stick to stuff you know about, tweet about the IPL"
And Gambhir was ready with a rebuttal: "Never mind your lack of cricketing prowess but Kashmiris and our country would have been well served if you knew a thing or two about selfless governance. By the way history is always consistent but perspectives are subjective. Better clean ur reading glasses."
All this comes in the backdrop of the BJP projecting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's humble beginning as a tea-seller as a poll plank for the upcoming polls.
In the run up to the Lok Sabha polls due in a few days, the BJP began selling paper cups at tea stalls across Delhi-NCR with 'NaMo Again' written on them.
In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, it was 'chai pe charcha' that took the saffron party to power at the Centre.
