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| Nothing wrong in Mufti’s dual currency demand: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Apr 15
After her father and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed proposed that dual currency be allowed in the state, People`s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said there was nothing wrong in such a proposition.
“Our PM wants borders between India and Pakistan dissolved allowing people to people contact. If that will be the case, then both sides will informally begin accepting each other’s currency. If EU can have the system, why can’t we?” she said while talking to a mews channel.
Protests over the remark broke out in the state as hordes of people took out processions and raised slogans against the PDP patron.
At a rally in the state, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had said that Pakistani currency should be allowed in India.
Last month, his daughter Mehbooba Mufti had, during her visit to Pugwash Conference in Pakistan, suggested dual power-sharing arrangement between India and Pakistan for undivided Kashmir as an amicable settlement to the issue.
“Its about business, about practicality….we should move beyond our hatreds and prejudices,” Mehbooba said. The process that Vajpayee began should be continued.
Presenting her paper on "Prospects for Kashmir and Indo-Pak relations" at the Pugwash Conference in Islamabad, the PDP leader had advocated a three-step approach envisaging dual control on Kashmir by both India and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, even as PDP is a major ally of Congress in the state coalition Government in the state, its suggestion on dual power- sharing arrangement and dual currency is not acceptable to the latter. Rather many of the senior Congress leaders feel that PDP in order to retain its Kashmir constituency was going too far and spoiling their poll prospects in Jammu region.
"Issues like currency are a Central subject and PDP leaders shall not speak on it, especially when infiltration was going on in the state and many more militants were still waiting across the LoC for an opportunity to sneak into the state," said a senior Congress leader who wished not to be quoted. |
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