“You don’t know what I can do to you. I will get you skinned alive and hang you. How can you write this against my husband”, she said.
Srinagar: The wife of a senior PDP leader and parliament member Saturday threatened to kill Shamim Me’raj, Editor of The Kashmir Monitor newspaper.
The MP’s wife was upset with an editorial that the newspaper had carried about the MP.
In a phone conversation lasting over 4 minutes, the MP’s wife not only abused the editor but also threatened to get him eliminated.” You don’t know what I can do to you. I will get you skinned alive and hang you. How can you write this against my husband”, she said.
“If my husband wanted he could have become the CM in 2006. I know who runs this paper. You see what I will do to you”, she went on.
The PDP Lok Sabha MP, Muzaffar Hussain Baig’s wife Safeena Baig Saturday threatened to get The Kashmir Monitor Editor, Shamim Meraj, “skinned alive and eliminated”.
Safeena was upset over an Editorial ‘The Kashmir Monitor carried on August 13 over Muzaffar Baig’s affluent praise of PM Modi.
Calling from Baig’s New Delhi Mobile number, the MP’s wife, sounding extremely agitated and upset, hurled volley of abuses at KM Editor before going on to say, “You don’t know who I am. I will come and skin you alive and then hang you. You are jealous of my husband. You don’t know who he is. I will come to your office and show you what I can do if you don’t apologise.”
Baig’s wife then went on with a series of expletives which cannot be published. She also made references to other senior PDP leaders, abusing them and accusing them of hatching conspiracies against her husband.
In the conversation that lasted over four minutes, the MP’s wife kept abusing KM Editor, his friends and family members. She went on to say that had Baig wanted, he would have become the Chief Minister in 2006.
“You think my husband wants to become the CM? If Baig sahib wanted he could have become the Chief Minister in 2006. You think he needs that. How can you write all this! I will expose you. I know who runs this paper, I know you are all jealous of my husband. The Chief Minister is my sister,” Safeena said.
“You think you run are a journalist. Let me tell me you no one reads your newspaper. It’s a piece of trash. Tell your father also. You are not running a newspaper, you are running a mafia. You and your father think you will run this state”, she ranted.
The Kashmir Monitor, later in day, lodged a formal complaint against Safeena in police station Kothi Bagh.
This is perhaps for the first time in recent years that a politician’s wife is going about threatening to get people killed.
In the Omar Abdullah led National Conference –Congress alliance, the wife of a Congress Cabinet Minister from South Kashmir was known to abuse, threaten and harass party and government officials.
KEG Aghast
Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) has taken a strong exception to a threatening phone call made by an MP’s wife to Editor, Kashmir Monitor.
In a statement issued here today, a spokesman of KEG said that wife of a senior PDP leader and MP called Shamim Me’raj and threatened to ‘skin and hang him.’
The lady in question was reacting to an editorial published in Kashmir Monitor.
While describing the lady’s phone call as uncalled for and unacceptable, the spokesman said that any interference in the editorial policy of any newspaper by anyone, no matter how powerful he or she may be, will not be taken lying down.