Srinagar, Jan 6: Unknown gunmen attacked the house of National Conference (NC) legislator Showkat Ganai in south Kashmir's Shopian district, but the guards repulsed the assault.

 
According to police, unidentified gunmen on Thursday night fired at Ganai's house in Chitragam village. "Guards posted at the house retaliated the attack, forcing the gunmen to flee," police said here.
 
The legislator was not present inside his house when the attack took place as he is in Jammu to attend the budget session of the state legislature. Two days back, Ganai had told the media that Hizbul commander Burhan Wani was a "martyr to the cause he stood for".
 
The legislator's remarks had ruffled many a feather in the mainstream political camp of Jammu and Kashmir. The political slugfest which took place post Burhan Wani's death took a toll on normal life with seperatists milking the occasion to call in for a five month long bandh and later glorified the slain terrorists. 

EVen mainstream parties are trying to establish their position on the killed terrorists with the ruiling PDP government recently announcing a list of agreived families who will recieve compensation for collateral damage suffered by their families.

Burhan Wani's family also figured in the list this even when the their elder son was killed in an encounter earlier on grounds of being an active over ground worker for the LeT outfit operating in India.