Saahil Suhail
Anantnag, Apr 1: Stating that New Delhi treats Jammu and Kashmir mainstream politicians as holy cows, People's Democratic Party president and nominated candidate for Anantnag Parliamentary constituency, Mehbooba Mufti alleged that law too gets biased when time to implement it in the state approaches. Mehbooba Mufti after filling her nomination papers told media while responding to a question that Mohd Yousf Bhat had threatened to reveal more secrets related with Haji Yousf Killing, she said, " Very Unfortunately the law applicable in rest of the country doesn't get implemented here . Killers like Bhullar will get relief; Charges against Dr Farooq Abdullah in Jammu Kashmir cricket scam aren't being even discussed but Kalmadi gets jail. Similarly a young man (Haji Yousf) went inside the house of chief minister to discuss his financial dispute but he comes out in worst position and dies, had such incident taken place in any other Chief Minister's house, he would have resigned. A molestation case took place, involving a sitting minister, but he invoked his nationalism by saying he has never talked separatism and got the relief. To sum up, it seems New Delhi treats Jammu Kashmir main stream politicians as holy cows and believes that whatever they do, they should not be touched." She said that in this country Killers of Rajiv Gandhi got some sort of pardon but because of National Conference and Congress, Afzal Guru was picked up from 28 serial number and was hanged. Reaffirming her stand to resolve the Kashmir issue if elected, she said, "As a regional party we have the agenda alike 2002 on which we worked to pullout Kashmir from bloodshed and make Kashmir a bridge between the India and Pakistan." She said that if people voted foe PDP they will carry forward the agenda to resolve the sufferings of people.
"Parliamentary elections in the state have ever since been used to get cabinet berths in Center and to benefit a particular family but we have agenda to benefit people of the state not to get cabinet berths." She said.She was accompanied by several party leaders including Abdul Rehman Veeri, MLA; Sofi Abdul Gaffar, MLA; Rafi Ahmad Mir, MLA; Peerzada Mansoor Hussain, MLA; Peer Mohammad Hussain, Nazir Ahmad Laway, Chaudry Nizamudin Khatana, Syed Farooq Andrabi, Abdul Rahim Rather, Advocate Shiekh Javaid, Zaffar Ullah Wani, G A Thakur and Imran Amin. |
