Early Times Report
Jammu, June 29: Peoples’ Conference on Tuesday disowned veteran leader and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffar Hussain Baig for taking a blunt stand on Article 370 in the all-party meeting.
Although Peoples’ Conference president Sajad Lone preferred to maintain silence over Baig blunt stand, party’s general secretary Imran Ansari disowned the stand taken by former Deputy Chief Minister in the all-party meeting.
Ansari said that Peoples’ Conference was represented only party president Sajad Gani Lone in the all-party meeting and Muzaffar Hussain Baig had attended the meet as a former Deputy Chief Minister.
Interestingly Ansari said that Baig has never joined Peoples Conference and was not a member of the party.
After the all-party meeting, Baig has argued that issue of the revocation of Article 370 should be left to the Apex Court as the matter was sub-judice. “As far as Article 370 is concerned, I said the meeting that matter is in the Supreme Court so let the Supreme Court decide on this issue”, Baig stated after attending the all-party meeting.
Baig has also exposed PDP president Mehbooba Mufti for speaking in different tones inside and outside meeting. “There was disparity on the conduct of Mehbooba Mufti during and after the meeting when she addressed media. There was indeed a difference in Mehbooba Mufti's tone, when she spoke about Pakistan, at the meeting and while addressing reporters outside,” Muzaffar Baig told a TV channel after the meeting.
Notwithstanding the statement of Imran Ansasri, Baig, who is a former patron of PDP, had joined the Peoples Conference (PC) in Srinagar on March 17 this year. Sajad Lone had described Baig's joining as “homecoming” |
