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| PDP is party of uncles and aunts, says Imran Ansari | | Revolt against Mehbooba | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 6: PDP, which was founded in 1999 by late Mufti Sayeed and his daughter and former CM Mehbooba Mufti, is in deep crisis. It can split anytime with at least 14 MLAs thinking in terms of quitting the party.
The one man who has washed dirty linen in public is none other than a Shia leader and former minister in the Mufti Cabinet Imran Raza Ansari. He has described the PDP as a "party of uncle and aunts" and threatened that he, along with other PDP lawmakers, would tell the people of Kashmir what Mehbooba Mufti did or not did and that they can't keep the people of Kashmir in dark any longer.
"I would like to clear the air. It is not that the government fell and we started saying this. It has been on for a long time. For almost two years we have been begging, virtually begging, Mehbooba Mufti to change her style of functioning. But, she never paid heed. I resigned [from the government] and told her what is happening. She gave assurances and I joined the government again. The government fell abruptly because no one was scared of anyone. When somebody is on the chair, there is a kind of [respect]. In a state like ours, which is always in trouble, the chief minister is virtually next to God, [with] the amount of power which has been given to her," Imran said in an interview to an international journal, The Week.
He further said: "I told Mehboobaji that our party is being managed by the ones who were rejected [by the people] and by backdoor entrants. I did not hesitate to name them. And, lately, what had happened is that the PDP had become a party which was promoting just the family. We were shocked when she wanted to make her brother [Tassaduq Mufti] a member of the state legislative council. I was the first man to say it cannot happen. Because, he is just [a nobody] in politics. One of our senior legislators also had the same concern. But, she made [Tassaduq] a minister. There were so many people who had worked for the party, who had got 30,000 to 40,000 votes. They were not considered. I always told her that you are surrounded by sycophants. And, these sycophants are going to drown you, and so they did". Not just this, Imran dismissed the PDP as a party of uncles and aunts. In this regard, Ansari said: "Well, the whole world knows that the chief minister's uncle [Sartaj Madni] is the vice president of the party, her brother got the best position in the [tourism] ministry, [and] other relatives are placed in different positions. It is the talk of the town".
It is clear from what Ansari told the international journal that he has made up his mind to take on and expose the PDP leadership, especially Mehbooba Mufti and her brother Tassaduq Mufti and uncle Sartaj Madni. The manner in which things are unfolding in the PDP is an indication that the party may split sooner than later. There are already reports that 14 MLAs are almost ready to come out of the PDP and float a new front. Ansari calls it "First Force". |
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