Mehbooba lashes out at BJP, says will have to restore all rights of JK
By: Tariq Shah
Srinagar
Talking to the media at Jammu office, Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that the BJP government was carrying on iron fist policy in Jammu and Kashmir pushing the people to the wall and sending them to jails if they show any dissent with them.
She blamed the BJP policies for the rise in militancy and said that it is because of their wrong policies that young boys are “preferring to hold guns rather than going to jail”.
Mehbooba Mufti was quoted as saying, “BJP will have to return everything snatched from the people of J&K”. Meanwhile KNO in its report from Jammu said.
Talking to media persons at her party office in Jammu, Mehbooba said that Article 370 and other provisions of special status of Jammu and Kashmir were “not meant for Muslims of Kashmiris alone but were for entire Jammu and Kashmir and were indeed brought by Maharaja rule to save the Dogra culture”.
“We want 370 back and they (BJP) will have to return everything snatched from us on August 5, 2019,” Mehbooba Mufti said.
“The darkness that started here post August 5, 2019 has engulfed Jammu also and people here are too much worried with the sequence of events,” she further said.
In reply to a question, Mehbooba said that the present government “is following an iron-fist policy and whosoever speaks against them is being pushed to jail”.
She said it was “only because of such highhandedness of government that youth in Kashmir is preferring to hold guns rather than going to jail forcibly and militancy has also witnessed a rise in BJP rule”.
In reply to a question related to her remarks over tricolour, Mehbooba Mufti said that she took oath of both Jammu and Kashmir’s constitution and constitution of India and “will hold both flags together”.
She further suggested the government of India to” learn from foreign policy adopted by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and to restore normalcy on borders with Pakistan where innocent people are drying due to firing”.
“I reiterate the slogan of late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for opening of more and more border routes on Indo-Pak borders,” she said.
She also said that late Mufti upheld the national flag in Jammu and Kashmir at a time when he was socially boycotted.
She, however, added that modalities of distribution of tickets for DDC polls under PAGD banner are yet to be finalized.
