Srinagar, July13: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday said Centre of ‘dangerous outcomes’ of breaking the functioning of the People’s Democratic Party.
“If Delhi tries to dismiss the voting rights of people like 1987, and if it tries to create divisions and interfere like that, then I think just like a Syed Salahuddin and a Yasin Malik were born in 1987, there will be dangerous consequences (Agar Dilli ne 1987 ki tarah yahan ki awam ke vote pe daaka dala, agar iss kism ki tod fod ki koshish ki,jis tarah ek Salahuddin ek Yasin Malik ne janm liya…agar Dilliwalon ne PDP ko todne ki koshish ki uski nataish bahut zyada khatarnaak hogi),” she told reporters in Srinagar, on the sidelines of a state event organised to commemorate Martyr’s Day.
Meanwhile, National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah suggested that the state assembly be dissolved, following the breakup of the Bharatiya Janata Party-PDP alliance.
“We cannot distribute the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). We cannot work then what is the point of salary? Give us our CDF. Dissolve assembly, stop horse trading. We will talk about elections after you dissolve the assembly, stop the horse trading, civilian killings,” he said.
Last month, the BJP pulled out from its alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, following which Mufti stepped down as chief minister.
Thereafter, governor’s rule was imposed in the state.
On a related note, people across Jammu and Kashmir are observing the anniversary of the 22 men who were martyred in Kashmir, while protesting against the autocratic rule of the Dogra king, also known as Martyr’s Day.
On July 13, 1931, the Dogra regime ordered indiscriminate firing on thousands of peaceful protesters outside Srinagar’s Central Jail, after which 22 Kashmiris were martyred on the orders of Maharaja Hari Singh.
Militancy already reborn under Mehbooba’s rule: Omar
Srinagar, July 13: Rejecting the contentions of PDP president and former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti that militants like Syed Salahudin and Yasin Malik will emerge, the National Conference vice president and another former chief minister Omar Abdullah in a series of tweets said militancy has already been reborn under the able administration of Mehbooba Mufti.
Taking to micro blogging social networking website twitter, Omar said “She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration.”
In his yet another tweet, Omar said “She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration.”
Mehbooba’s ‘proximity’ with separatists exposed: BJP
New Delhi, July 13: Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Friday said Mehbooba Mufti with her statement was “trying to give oxygen” to militants.
“Knowing or unknowingly she has only exposed her proximity to separatists,” the BJP leadear said.
“She has exposed her proximity with separatists by warning that if her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was split it would create more militants in the state,” he said.
Earlier in the day, talking to reporters in Srinagar, the PDP chief had said if the central government split her party to form new government in the state, it would create more Salahuddins and Yasin Maliks — who were first to take arms after the 1987 elections were rigged.
Salahuddin, whose real name in Yousuf Shah, contested the election and Malik was his polling agent. However, it was alleged that the polls were rigged in favour of the National Conference-Congress coalition. Shah ended up heading the Hizbul Mujahideen militant group and Malik launched Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front
Reacting to Mufti’s statement, BJP’s central committee member G.V.L. Narasimha Rao said Mufti’s remarks were “very bizzare”.
Mufti, he said, “seems under tremendous pressure from her own party.
“Is she now equating her party with Hizbul Mujahiddin,” he asked.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister and senior state BJP leader Kavinder Gupta said: “It is very unfortunate that she (Mufti) was ruling the state only a few days back as Chief Minister and now she threatens of a militant “uprising.”
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