Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah has called Anti-Terrorist Front of India Chief Viresh Shandilya an "idiot" for keeping a ₹21-lakh bounty on Farooq Abdullah's tongue. Omar tweeted, "Guy doesn't have two nickels to rub together & he's offering 21 Lakhs." Shandilya had kept the bounty saying Farooq Abdullah spoke against RSS and insulted India with his pro-Pakistan remarks.