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| Latest theatrics from Mehbooba: 'My pro-Kashmir agenda troubled BJP' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 23: It seems former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has decided to break all rules of ethics and politics to stay in media headlines. After the BJP broke the alliance with her party PDP, Mehbooba is left with no choice but to cry foul. The latest of her cries were heard on a TV channel where she said that it was her "pro-Kashmir agenda" that troubled BJP at national level.
"BJP leaders had started saying that I am soft on terrorism and other issues," she said in an interview to national news channel. She said her party continued to be part of the alliance with the BJP to get the State out of the morass it was caught in since 1990.
She said her father and PDP's founder Mufti Muhammad Sayeed's intention to align with BJP was pure. "However, the decision did not go down well with the people as they had a lot of expectations from us," Mehbooba said.
After this statement, she cracked the following joke to cheer up the interviewer: "National Conference had also been with BJP but people did not disapprove that alliance like they did in their case because they expected more from them." One can ask her why did not she speak about these issues when the coalition, though limping, was in place. The fact of the matter is that she is recuperating from the shock she was threatening the BJP with: ending coaliton. More she opens her mouth, more disgrace she brings upon herself by contradicting her actions during her coalition rule.
Her rhetoric that she has maintained since her party was dumped is that "Kashmir is a battle of ideas" and "jailing and killing people" won't solve the problem. In other words she is saying that give militants more time to regroup so that they can vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the country.
Mehbooba also said in the interview that she told the Home Minister Rajnath Singh that she would walk out of the alliance if the Article 35-A was tempered with. This best explains her regional politics. The fact of the matter that the Valley has remained a hotbed of militancy is due to the reason that the regional politicians have not allowed complete assimilation with the rest of the country.
If Kashmir has to move forward, people must stop supporting politicians like Mehbooba Mufti and her ilk.
And then there is her lieutenant Naeem Akhtar who has said, "We hope Dr Farooq Abdullah sticks to it (his remarks in the Lok Sabha on Kashmir and Pakistan) and contributes to the resolution of Kashmir in a positive manner. It is also a high time for the central government to utilise this consensus among the political groups in Kashmir vis-a-vis the peaceful resolution of Kashmir and that the government of India should respond to this consensus at an earliest."
This is what their political drama is now reduced to: You cry, I praise! |
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