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| PDP eyeing to revive relations with Jamaat | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 1: Ahead of the general and state elections this year, the Peoples Democratic Party is allegedly eyeing to revive contacts with the Jamat E Islamic.
Sources said the PDP President Mehbooba Mufti during her recent visit to south Kashmir held a meeting with her close aides there and decided that there was a need to revive relations with the Jamaat, which is allegedly backed by Pakistan.
Sources said it was a part of the same plan that Mehbooba recently visited family of a militant in south Kashmir and then came up statement seeking Raj Bhawan's intervention.
Sources said Mehbooba has already started approaching the leaders of Jamaat through her close contacts and that family of a senior Hurriyat leader was likely to support her in the cause.
Sources said some of the PDP leaders from south Kashmir have been assigned the task to improve relations with the Jamaat and other such groups.
Sources said through Jamaat, Mehbooba wants to be in the good books of militant outfits like Hizbul Mujahideen which has a stronghold in south Kashmir. South Kashmir is seen as Mehbooba's stronghold.
"Improving relations with them (Jamaat) will be needed this time," said a source on the condition of anonymity.
The PDP leadership has often been accused of maintaining good relations with such groups, especially Jamaat. As per political observers Jamaat had alleged helped PDP to win 2003 Assembly elections.
A former spymaster had also spoken about such contact between Jamaat and PDP during his series of interviews in 2015.
Interestingly the Raj Bhawan has already taken at dig at Mehbooba over her new support for families of militants.
Supporting militants has become a political compulsion for Mehbooba ahead of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the governor Satya Pal Malik said on December 31.
His reaction came a day after the PDP president warned the administration over alleged harassment of families of militants by the police.
After her visit to restive Pulwama district, Mehbooba took to twitter and wrote: "Visited PatiporaPulwama where Rubina (whose brother happens to be a militant) was along with her husband and brother beaten mercilessly in police custody. The severe nature of her injuries has left her bedridden."
Despite repeated attempts the PDP leadership couldn't be contacted for comments. |
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