Srinagar, April 21 -- Asserting that communal hatred is weakening the country, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the recent violence in West Bengal was the direct fallout of the growing Hindu-Muslim divide in the country.
However, the former chief minister urged people to come together and demonstrate unity as "the threat is not from Pakistan or China but within the country from those who are spreading hatred in the name of religion".
Abdullah was speaking to reporters after addressing a public meeting organised by his party to welcome retired senior superintendent of police Mohan Lal Kaith in the party fold at the border constituency of Marh near Jammu.
Kaith, who unsuccessfully contested the last year's Assem...