Uttar Pradesh: BJP’s Agra unit on Monday dismissed its local media in-charge Rajkumar Pathik for posting an anti-Modi poem on Facebook, criticising the party’s support to Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and his party PDP’s acts in Kashmir.

Pathik, in his post, had likened Modi’s support to PDP as feeding milk to a snake and had said that the snake will only produce poison and bite Modi as soon as it gets chance.

While the poem was widely liked by both the Congress party members as well as Hindu organisations, Pathik was dismissed from his portfolio on Monday morning by the party’s city president Nagendra Dubey Gama.

Gama claimed that the post had used very strong language against the Prime Minister and Mufti Sayeed and he was removed to maintain discipline in the party cadres. He said an inquiry has been setup against Pathik inside the party’s city unit.

Meanwhile, Pathik claimed that he had not said anything wrong and was willing to face any probe. He said the Prime Minister himself had endorsed his views in his Monday speech in Parliament and by criticising the PDP government, he had only voiced the concerns of the entire country towards this unlikely coalition of a nationalist and a separatist party.

Social activist Deep Sharma said that the BJP was now at a crossroad where it has to decide whether it will continue its support to all antics of Mufti government or firmly place its foot down and say enough is enough. He said that the BJP has always colluded with separatists in Kashmir and the country has paid the price. “This practice should stop immediately and the country should get a stable and nationalist government in Kashmir,” he said.