Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the PDP’s decision to enter into an alliance with the BJP was like consuming “a cup of poison”. Addressing a rally, Mufti said her father, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, had joined hands with the BJP for peace and stability of Jammu and Kashmir. She insisted that her father didn’t form the government with the BJP for not only building roads and providing electricity to the people of J&K.
Speaking during the Foundation Day of the Peoples Democratic Party, she added that the alliance was forged only to save the people of Kashmir. She also mentioned that during the 2016 uprising, when pellets were being fired at the youth, she felt as if they were hitting her body.
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The Opposition, time and again has accused Mehbooba of compromising everything for the sake of power, however she rejected the accusations. “I didn’t compromise for anything during my two years of tenure as Chief Minister,” she said.
She further added, “As many times I met Prime Minister Modi, I asked him to initiate dialogue with Pakistan and Hurriyat leaders.” Ms Mufti became Jammu and Kashmir’s first woman chief minister in March 2016 and continued to be in power for the next two years till the BJP pulled the rug from under her feet in June.
The alliance has cost her party a great deal of political capital in Kashmir, particularly after she was seen to have ceded much space to the BJP which pushed a “muscular policy” that many Kashmiris resented.
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