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| Mehbooba replies Farooq with venom, fire | | Mehbooba says Farooq used to admire Jagmohan as "father, philosopher and a guide" | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 17
After three days of National Conference leader and former Chief Dr Farooq Abdullah's marathon allegations against his successor and the bitter political opponent Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Peoples Democratic Party today hit back with some typical venom and fire.
Taking Farooq to task, the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said the recent contradictory statements dished out by the top National Conference (NC) leaders has not only brought in open the inherent contradictions within the party but also depicts the desperation and frustration that has overtaken its ranks. She was addressing a public meeting at Nagrota near here today.
"While on one hand NC Patron Farooq Abdullah is trying to upstage his son from the State's political scene, on the other he is desperately trying to shift the blame of the tragedies that have befallen the State mostly due to NC's wrongdoing on others. She said bereft of any agenda, NC leadership has turned a politically bankrupt and publicly discredited lot, which clearly reflects in their malevolent utterances and hysterical disparage.
Referring to the latest wild accusations of the NC Patron against Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the PDP, Ms Mufti said people are the best judges and they have already dumped and written-off Dr Abdullah as one of the misfortunes that was foisted on the State only to push it into the most tragic era of death and destruction. "Dr Abdullah has run out of all respect and credibility among the people and his lust for power is now leading the NC from one disaster to another," she said and added that fortunately, in the changed circumstances, these verbal acrobatics of the NC leadership would impact the situation only in a positive sense as the party has forfeited its monopolistic hold on the State.
Ms Mufti said ironically, out of frustration, the NC leaders are now desperately even trying to politicize for electoral gains the tragic assassination of Mirwaiz Moulvi Mohammad Farooq. She said by raising such emotional issues, the NC, in tune with its traditional tactics, is not only trying to create dissentions within the society, but is also in a desperate bid politicizing a tragedy. "Who, despite forewarnings, facilitated the assassination of not only the Hurriet leader Abdul Gani Lone, but their own Ministers Mushtaq Ahmad Lone and Ghulam Hassan Bhat besides scores of other political activists and common men and women across the State during the NC rule," she asked and added that after having spent the last five years globe-trotting in pursuit of the luxuries he is used to, the NC Patron has suddenly reappeared on the State's political scene to realize his much-cherished dream of grabbing power through whatever means. "But I would like to tell Dr Abdullah that Jammu & Kashmir has changed a lot since he left the State in 2002 and the people know who has done what for them," she said.
Mufti said the worst-ever electoral rigging engineered by the NC in 1987 elections is still haunting its leaders and foreseeing the party's dwindling political fate the NC leaders have now started seeing in PDP the reincarnation of the erstwhile Muslim United Front (MUF). "The NC leaders know that the massive rigging of 1987 elections by them led to a trail of death and destruction in the State and the people would punish them for their misdeeds," she said and added that the NC leaders are scared by the rehash of such a scenario as they know that they would be made accountable for every drop of blood that was shed in the State because of the political highhandedness resorted to by it in 1987. "Even the thought of such a scenario is dreadful for NC," she said.
The PDP President said surprisingly the same Dr Abdullah, who is today blaming Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for forcing Jagmohan as Governor on the State, was the first to admire him as a "father, philosopher and a guide" when Jagmohan came to the Raj Bhawan to take over as the Governor for the second time. "And who had then said that given the impressive work done by Mr Jagmohan during his first term, he (Jagmohan) is more popular than any political leader in the State," she said and added that it was none other than Dr Abdullah who had used all kinds of objectives to showered praises on Mr Jagmohan when he took over as the Governor of the State for the second time. "People have a short memory, but not as short Dr Abdullah thinks," she said.
Referring to the NC Patron's recent histrionics against Delhi, Ms Mufti said it is a welcome realization for Dr Abdullah that power lies with the people of the State. "Previously it was ingrained in the former Chief Minister's mind that power could flow only from Delhi," she said and added that to that extent Farooq's belated realization could be a tribute to the fact that power lies within the State and flows from its people to the elected representatives and not vice versa.
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