Jammu and Kashmir Chief MinisterOmar Abdullah today said he wrote a letter to Prime MinisterManmohan Singh and also met him to request for return of thebody of Afzal Guru but did not make this public since hewanted to avoid "playing politics" on the issue.
Omar said this on a day when Opposition PDP patron MuftiMohammad Sayeed released a letter he wrote to the PrimeMinister demanding that the body of the Parliament attackconvict be returned to his family for proper burial.
Afzal was hanged and buried in Tihar jail in Delhi onFebruary 9 and there have been demands from his family thathis body be returned to them.
"I had written to the PM on the 19th of this month askingfor the return of the bodies of both Afzal Guru & MaqboolBhatt to their families," Omar tweeted on the microbloggingsite Twitter.
Omar said he followed this up with a visit to the PrimeMinister to make the request in person a few days ago. "MyGovt will continue to raise this issue with Delhi," he said.
"I had hoped to avoid playing politics with the body ofAfzal Guru but that seems to be impossible to avoid with theMufti Sayeed letter now.
I guess I should have played politics by making theletter public immediately but am glad the PDP has joined insupport now," Omar said in a series of tweets.