Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former deputy chief minister of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, Kavinder Gupta Sunday criticised Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti for allegedly “supporting” Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief Yasin Malik and demanded a probe against the former chief minister over her alleged links with “anti-nationals and violence mongers”.

Pertinently, Gupta served as Mehbooba`s deputy when she was the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 2016 to 2018 in the then PDP-BJP coalition government. He also served as the speaker of the erstwhile state`s Assembly.