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| PDP politics hits new low with Mehbooba's doublespeak | | 'Rudali' is back in her old avatar | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 13: Former Chief Minister and president of People's Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti, is finally showing her true colour after the BJP pulled out of the government led by her last month.
Carrying on with her tradition of visiting the graveyard of July 13, 1931 slain who rebelled against the Maharaja rule, Mehbooba, like other mainstream politicians of Kashmir, was back in her previous avatar: blaming New Delhi for all the ills plaguing Jammu and Kashmir.
A baffled and wavering Mehbooba said: "If Delhi tries to dismiss the voting rights of people like 1987, if it tries to create divisions and interfere like that, then I think it will be just like Salah-ud-din and Yasin Malik were born in 1987. Any intervention from Delhi will be taken seriously."
She also alleged that there can't be any horse trading without New Delhi's intervention. But this will have disastrous results.
Her statement was ridiculed by another former Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, who said: "She must really be desperate if she is threatening the Centre with renewed militancy if the PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration."
When in power, Mehbooba sided with her coalition partner BJP when the Centre went all out against separatists and their sympathisers. At the peak of 2016 unrest, she ridiculed a journalist when he asked her why young boys were being killed on the streets of Kashmir. She maintained that the misguided youth were used as human shield by the separatists and didn't go to police stations and army camps to buy toffees or milk.
Just last month, Mehbooba said that the militants were sabotaging the unilateral ceasefire called by the Centre. But her dichotomy was visible even during her Chief Minister days. She held out the olive branch for the militants by repeatedly pitching for dialogue with Pakistan and all stakeholders in J&K to bring the state out of the current situation.
She also said that it was more about an emotional integration of Kashmiris with India for which the idea of 'azadi' in Kashmir needed to be replaced with a "better idea" that will accommodate aspirations of the people of the state.
It seems that Mehbooba loves to sail in two boats, one sinks other is ready to take her to the shore.
Notably, all mainstream politicians of Kashmir, when out of power, have preached and practiced soft separatism to remain in the good books of militants and their sympathisers across the border. But once they come into power, these very politicians obey like New Delhi's servants in Kashmir and justify all good and bad deeds of the Centre in the state. |
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