Omar, Mehbooba take to Twitter to hit out at PM
We have to rid J&K of these two political families, says Modiji in 2014 and then promptly goes and makes not one but two members of Mufti family CM OMAR ABDULLAH, NC vice-president Why does PM bash political families pre elections & then sends his envoys to stitch alliances with the very same parties? MEHBOOBA MUFTI , PDP president
SRINAGAR : National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday for his remarks that their families destroyed lives of three generations in Jammu and Kashmir and should be kept out of power to ensure the state’s development.
Omar took to Twitter to remind Modi of the BJP’S alliance with the PDP and that it backed the late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his daughter Mehbooba Mufti to become the state’s chief ministers.
“This is how much Modi ji believes what he says. Look how happy he is to seal an alliance with one of the families he wants to rid J&K politics of,” he wrote on Twitter and posted a photograph of Modi hugging PDP founder late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
“We have to rid J&K of these two political families, says Modiji in 2014 and then promptly goes and makes not one but two members of the Mufti family CM of J&K,” Abdullah tweeted.
“In 2019 Modiji says ‘we have to rid J&K of these two political families. Another jumla Modiji?” he said. The BJP had formed a coalition with the PDP, allowing Mufti Mohammad Sayed to become chief minister in 2015 and then again after his death with his daughter Mehbooba.
Mehbooba reacted to the National Conference leader’s tweet by sharing a picture of Modi and Omar with a bouquet of flowers with the comment: “Exhibit B. Modi ji looks thrilled to be greeted by a dynast.”
She also accused the BJP of doublespeak when it comes to stitching alliances with parties like hers.
“Why does PM bash political families pre elections & then sends his envoys to stitch alliances with the very same parties? NC in 99 & PDP in 2015. Why do they choose power over Article 370 then ? BJP with its noxious agenda of banishing Muslims & minorities wants to divide India,” she said.
Earlier in the day at Kathua, Modi blamed the Abdullahs and Muftis saying, the two had “ruined” three generations of Jammu and Kashmir and stressed that he would not allow them to “divide” India.