At a time when some news channels and BJP is Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration leaders as ‘Gupkar Gang’, and Congress party is being criticized for being part of this Alliance, India’s Home Minister also referred this Alliance comprising of senior political leaders as a ‘gang’.

In a series of tweetes, Amit Shah wrote: “The Gupkar Gang is going global! They want foreign forces to intervene in Jammu and Kashmir. The Gupkar Gang also insults India’s Tricolour. Do Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji support such moves of the Gupkar Gang ? They should make their stand crystal clear to the people of India.”
Shah further wrote that Congress and the ‘Gupkar Gang’ want to take J&K back to the era of ‘terror’ and turmoil. “They want to take away rights of Dalits, women and tribals that we have ensured by removing Article 370. This is why they’re being rejected by the people everywhere.”
He reiterated that: “Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and will always remain an integral part of India. Indian people will no longer tolerate an unholy ‘global gathbandhan’ against our national interest. Either the Gupkar Gang swims along with the national mood or else the people will sink it.”
In response to these tweets, former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that he can understand the level of frustration of Amit Shah after they decided to participate in the elections.
“I can understand the frustration behind this attack by the Hon’ble Home Minister. He had been briefed that the People’s Alliance was preparing to boycott elections. This would have allowed the BJP & newly formed King’s party a free run in J&K. We didn’t oblige them,” Omar Abdullah wrote.
Mehbooba Mufti too castigated Amit Shah for his tweets saying that old habits die hard. “Earlier BJPs narrative was that the tukde tukde gang threatened India’s sovereignty & they are now using ‘Gupkar Gang’ euphemism to project us as anti nationals. Irony died a million deaths since its BJP itself that violates the constitution day in & day out”
In other tweets she said: “Fighting elections in an alliance is also anti-national now. BJP can stitch as many alliances in its hunger for power but somehow we are undermining national interest by putting up a united front.”
“BJPs stale tactic of dividing India by projecting themselves as saviours & political opponents as internal & imagined enemies is far too predictable now. Love jihad, tukde tukde & now Gupkar Gang dominates the political discourse instead of like rising unemployment & inflation,” Mehbooba wrote.