Mufti’s PM praise leaves NC fuming
Jammu and Kashmir’s main Opposition party National Conference (NC) termed chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s assertion that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the “only hope” to take the state out of the quagmire as her “sycophancy”.
It said that the ruling party has humiliated Kashmiris and asked, “Has she forgotten how Modi insulted her father Mufti Sahib”? The NC said that the CM’s continued and unconditional loyalty to the BJP and the Prime Minister in light of her declaration that Mr Modi was Kashmir’s “only hope” despite the Central government’s refusal to even acknowledge the political nature of the Kashmir issue her “sycophancy is unbecoming and has denigrated the sanctity of the J&K chief minister’s office”.
Party spokesman Junaid Azim Mattu said in a statement that Ms Mufti’s unilateral declaration of loyalty to the PM vis-a-vis the resolution of the Kashmir issue was astounding as the PM had publicly snubbed and humiliated her father “by curtly telling him that he doesn’t require any advice on Kashmir during a public rally in Srinagar”.
“Either Mehbooba Mufti is suffering from amnesia or she is willing to oversee the humiliation meted out to her late father by the same Prime Minister. We have a PM who refuses to accept the political nature of the Kashmir issue and somehow Mehbooba Mufti sees the same PM as Kashmir’s “only hope”,” the spokesman said.
The NC also said that the chief minister would do well to remember how late Mufti openly declared that Mr Modi was a “toofaan ka aadmi” and expressed similar “unfounded and unrealistic” optimism in his political will to resolve the Kashmir issue.