New Delhi: Barely hours after the Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a resolution urging the President to review the death sentence of Rajiv Gandhi's killers, came a tweet from the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

"If the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly had passed a resolution similar to the Tamil Nadu one for Afzal Guru, would the reaction have been as muted? I think not," Omar tweeted. Afzal Guru, or Mohammad Afzal, was convicted for plotting an audacious attack on the Parliament on December 13, 2001. Five terrorists had attacked Parliament House in the Winter session, killing seven security personnel, before being shot dead. Afzal was found guilty and sentenced to death by a sessions court in 2002.

In the Kashmir Valley, the death sentence to Afzal Guru is a sensitive issue. The state government fears widespread unrest if he is hanged.

"Omar Abdullah by saying these things wants to address his constituency. In everything you shouldn't bring up state politics. The country's politics is bigger than the state," said Shahnawaz Hussain, BJP Spokesperson.