Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 27: Mehbooba Mufti, the leader of the People’s Democratic Party, referred to the Centre’s action in August 2019 as an aggression during her party’s first youth gathering following the removal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.
She forewarned New Delhi that Kashmiris will resist intruders in the same way they did in 1947, when they resisted Pakistani invaders and drove them from their territory.
Before the BJP withdrew its support in June 2018, the former Chief Minister, who oversaw the BJP-PDP coalition administration in Jammu and Kashmir, committed to make any sacrifice necessary to protect the rights of the populace. She claimed that the BJP was destroying the J&K state, which had a distinctive identity and political structure.
“Kashmiris know how to repel aggressors. We know it. We know it. This is the same Kashmiri that fought aggressors from Pakistan bare handed, and forced them to flee,” she said.
Ms Mufti said that Kashmir had had an emotional and constitutional relationship with the country. “But you (BJP) demolished it. You played with our honour and identity, you destroyed our state,” Mufti added.
Mufti urged the Center to resolve the Kashmir issue and claimed that sending a lot of troops to the area wouldn’t do anything.
The former Chief Minister also questioned the veracity of previous police encounters, in which police claimed that certain terrorist hybrids they had detained who had been assisting them in operations had been killed by terrorist fire.
“They are killing people on the pretext of being hybrid terrorists. Every day they (police) say that someone is killed in terrorist firing while accompanying them in the operations,” she said.
The BJP was accused of hypocrisy by the former chief minister for promoting the panchayat elections in Jammu and Kashmir as a return to democracy. If it’s “genuine democracy,” she urged the BJP to implement this strategy nationwide.
“They took away our Assembly, our constitution, and flag. Then they talk about holding panchayat elections,” she said.
