"The speaker of the assembly has the powers to decide on the resolution submitted by an independentmember of the assembly seeking clemency for Afzal Guru," Abdullah said. "If put to vote, the NC legislature party, headed by the party patron, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, will decide what course the party should take on the resolution."Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of a function here, Abdullah defended his Twitter comments on the Tamil Nadu assemblyresolution on clemency for the three sentenced to death for conspiracy in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination."The BJP cannot silence me on this issue," the chief minister said. "It is the people of my state who have the right to silence me if they so choose." The BJP had criticized Abdullah for a tweet in which he said that if the Kashmir assembly passed a resolution seeking clemency for Afzal Guru, as the Tamil Nadu assembly had done by seeking clemency for the three on death row for Rajiv Gandhi's killing, the reaction would not have been as muted as it was over the Tamil Nadu assembly resolution.An independentlegislator in the 87-member Kashmir assembly, Engineer Rashid, has already submitted a resolution to the speaker seeking clemency for Afzal Guru, who belongs to the Valley.Assembly speaker Muhammad Akbar Lone has said that he finds nothing constitutionally wrong in putting the resolution to vote. Governor N.N. Vohra has convened a short-routine session of the state legislature Sep 26. [More]Tags:indian administrative servicerajasthan?s alwartelephoned his wife