Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy. (Express archive photo) Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy. (Express archive photo)

Days after the attack on a CRPF convoy in Kashmir’s Pulwama, Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy on Tuesday supported a call for a boycott of “everything Kashmiri”, including the Amarnath Yatra and purchasing products from the state.

“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,” he tweeted.

The Meghalaya governor, who describes himself as a right-wing Hindu socio-political thinker, writer, ideologue on Twitter, went on the microblogging site to air his views.

The BJP leader turned governor also referred to the Pakistan Army for handling Kashmir separatists and its role in “East Pakistan”, mentioning war crimes like slaughter and rape. “… And they would have kept East Pakistan but for the whacking from India,” Roy tweeted.

“I am not suggesting that we go that far. But at least some distance?” he wrote.

Roy’s comments come in the wake of the February 14 terror attack by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

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