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| After Ansari, Muzaffar Beigh to quit PDP | | Mehbooba left alone! | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: As Imran Ansari has finally decided to bid adieu to PDP and join Peoples Conference (PC) led by Sajad Lone, there are high chances that the PDP may get another shock with its veteran Muzaffar Hussain Beigh joining the PC too.
Beigh "will join PC and announce his departure from PDP" in which he spent around 19 years since it was founded by him along with late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed 1999, said sources.
A PDP leader said the party is more concerned over Beigh's parting ways from the party than Ansari's joining the PC. "Ansari was already out of the party and he had announced it much earlier along with his uncle Abid Ansari. What turned out as a shock for the PDP was when Beigh announced his resentment in the public and hinted that he too is going to join PC. It is now a matter of days that we may hear the news," said the party leader.
Beigh had in December last year said that he was sidelined even when PDP and BJP stitched a common ground after the 2014 polls threw a fragmented mandate in the state.
After around three months of deliberations, PDP formed alliance with the BJP and signed the Agenda of Alliance that both the parties termed as a 'guiding principle' of running a coalition government in the state.
"I was completely sidelined. On December 28, 2014, Mufti Sahib in the presence of Mehbooba Ji had told me to get a document prepared for my preliminary negotiations with BJP. On January 1, 2015, I was told by Mehbooba Ji that I should stay back and some other person had been chosen to speak to BJP. I don't know why they did so, but yes, I was sidelined. Therefore I don't have any knowledge about the terms and conditions of the engagement with BJP," Beigh was quoted as having said in an interview.
Castigating the party's approach over burying its self-rule document for Kashmir issue resolution, Beigh had said that the document would now look obsolete.
"PDP's self-rule now looks like an obsolete document as the idea was never going to be possible unless Hurriyat and Pakistan accepted it," Beigh said.
Beigh also slammed the PDP's ministers for leaving Mehbooba Mufti alone during her tough time. He stated that soon after she took over the reins of power in the state, she was engulfed by the 2016 agitation and that none of her party ministers provided her any sort of emotional and moral support.
PDP's Lok Sabha member from north Kashmir who also served as the deputy chief minister during the PDP-Congress coalition says further that soon after the demise of the former CM and Mehbooba Mufti's father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, PDP had to witnessed the toughest battle of her life all alone.
"I understood that Mehbooba Mufti was deeply upset due to the loss of Mufti Sahib, as he was not her father only but a good friend too. But what pains me, that none of the ministers took the responsibility to advice her about the governance during that period, and that is where we lost the plot. She was left alone to fight not only the emotional battle within her but also the circumstances that emerged due to turmoil soon after she took the reins," said Beigh last year, adding that he may quit he is taken for granted in the party of which he was one of the founding members. |
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