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| Mehbooba accuses admin of hounding PDP workers | | | Saahil Suhail
Early Times Report
Bijbehara, Jan 7: Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Friday accused administration of hounding her party workers and stopping them from visiting her father’s grave to offer ‘fatiha’.
“You witnessed what is happening.
I don’t know why this administration fears PDP,” Mehbooba Mufti told Early Times at Bijbehara.
A number of videos, which have now surfaced on social media sites, show PDP President Mehbooba Mufti on her official vehicle and arguing with SSP Anantnag.
“Allow my workers first to proceed towards the grave. They make their entry from one gate and leave from the other,” Mehbooba can hear telling SSP Anantnag.
SSP Anantnag however insisted that she should visit the grave first.
After few minutes the administration agreed and allowed her workers to proceed towards the graveyard of PDP Founder Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed whose sixth death anniversary was observed across Jammu and Kashmir today.
“The J&K police are hounding my party workers who dared to offer ‘fatiha’ at his grave today. Outlawing and criminalizing even a simple act of paying respect and tribute to one’s leader shows state administration’s deep paranoia and intolerance,” Ms. Mufti tweeted after returning from Bijbehara.
At Bijbehara, Mehbooba Mufti asked Jammu and Kashmir residents to unite for safeguarding the erstwhile state.
“It’s time to join hands. Whether it’s Kashmiris, Dogras, Bakerwals, Pahari or Gujjar, if they don't wake up and unite now, the youths will have no land left to step, the way land summits are being held. We need to put up a fight and not to lose hope,” the former Chief Minister stated.
Ms. Mufti was speaking outside the grave of her father in Anantnag’s Bijbehara. “We will continue with the struggle till they [Centre] do not return what was snatched from us along with interest. Besides, the Kashmir issue, which has left thousands dead and thousand widows, need to be addressed,” she said.
Meanwhile, a senior official in Anantnag administration told Early Times that PDP wasn’t allowed to bring huge number of workers.
“Mehbooba Mufti was supposed to visit the graveyard along with some limited number of leaders or workers however they violated the COVID-19 protocol and gathered a huge gathering,” he said, adding action against this violation will be taken. |
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