Srinagar, May 24 -- After former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik was chargesheeted in a corruption case related to hydropower project in Kishtwar, Jammu, Valley political leaders said he had branded people in Kashmir "corrupt" during his tenure.

Peoples Conference (PC) chairperson Sajjad Lone said Malik ran slanderous campaign against Kashmiris.

"While I feel bad for ex governor Satyap Malik, given that he is ill, it true that he heralded the most vicious and slanderous campaign against the Kashmiris, branding every Kashmiri as a corrupt soul," he said.

Lone said that there was not a single television channel where Malik did not voice his negative opinion about Kashmiris, about carpets, about three-storey Kashmiri residences. "He harboure...