Known to be outspoken, former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah raised eyebrows last month by saying that people may start believing that Mohammed Ali Jinnah was right in promoting the two-nation theory. The statement came in the wake of the lynching of a Muslim at Dadri on the suspicion of storing beef, killing of a truck driver at Udhampur on the charge of transporting cattle, cancellation of Ghulam Ali’s concert in Mumbai and blackening the face of Sudheendra Kulkarni ahead of a book launch and of J&K legislator Rashid Engineer when he was addressing a press conference in Delhi—all by vandals claiming to be patriots and champions of Hindutva.