Jammu and Kashmir BJP Minister Choudhary Lal Singh on Monday denied making any remarks regarding the 1947 massacre of Muslims in Jammu, saying he referred to the “47 degrees Celsius temperature.”
“I was speaking to my Gujjar brothers in Dogri about the increasing temperature in Jammu. I had said that ‘the mercury would reach 47 degrees Centigrade in Jammu’. Forty-seven degrees Centigrade should not be confused with the tragedies of 1947,” said the Minister for Forest, Environment and Ecology.
Draws flakThe Minister is facing a public and political outcry after sarpanch Mohammed Mumtaz accused him of referring to the 1947 Muslim massacre during a meeting in Jammu last week.
