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| I erred by making Tasaduq a minister, admits Mehbooba | | Skeletons begin to tumble at last | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 9: Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has admitted that she committed a mistake by inducting her brother Tasaduq Mufti in the council of ministers during the PDP-BJP coalition in Jammu and Kashmir.
As the former CM and president of the PDP is facing severe criticism over giving preferences to her relatives in the government as well as in the party, she has for the first time broken the lull, stating that calling back Tasaduq from Mumbai to Jammu and Kashmir and making him minister was a mistake.
In a detailed chat with a New Delhi-based television channel, Mehbooba stated that she felt all alone when her father passed away on January 7, 2016 and she sank into an emotional trauma. "Calling Tasaduq from Mumbai to Jammu and Kashmir was entirely my call. It is me who should be blamed for it and no else. However, I would like to tell you that when my father passed away, I felt all alone and that is when I pleaded before Tasaduq to return and help me out. Me and my father used to work as a team. It was after he left that I begun missing Tasaduq," Mehbooba said.
She added that Tasaduq was at a much better position outside the state and that becoming a minister didn't accord him any undue benefit. "He is one of the best cinematographers of the world and he has been the cinematographer of various commercially successful films. He used to earn no less than Rs 4-5 lakh every day and being a minister in the state didn't open any coffers for him," Mehbooba said, adding that her brother is an artist "with creative and sumptuous imaginations and that confining him in the state was injustice that she did to him."
Mehbooba has broken the lull at a time when there is a growing disgruntlement within and outside her party over the favours she accorded to her close relatives. He is even being termed as a nepotist and her party as family democratic party instead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). There are MLAs of her own party rebelling against her in open with few declaring that they are ready to form the government with the BJP that pulled off its support from the government on June 19.
The PDP president however refuted the allegations of being a nepotist, stating that during the tough times when no one was ready to contest elections due to security concerns, her relatives did support her father at that time. "We haven't got them into the government on magic carpets. They have contested elections and won them in the past that too when there wasn't anyone ready to jump into the election fray," Mehbooba said.
Meanwhile, there are speculations making rounds that the PDP leadership is all set to hold parleys with its disgruntled leadership with the PDP president Mehbooba striving hard to keep the flock of MLAs together at such a crucial juncture when any wrong move by her and her party cadres could prove fatal for her political career at large. |
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