Mehbooba Mufti’s concern over thousands languishing in J&K jails

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti, has expressed concern over the detention “thousands of our people” who are imprisoned in jails and outside. Mufti was addressing a rally in Sopian in South Kashmir yesterday.

She said that journalists, who have gone to show the reality of her party, the People’s Democratic PARty (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir, have been also been arrested. “They do not want anyone to talk about the reality here, they want that only one message to go out that everything is fine here,’’ Mufti charged.

 According to her the People’s Alliance of Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a political front of like-minded parties, is fighting to restore the lost respect of Jammu and Kashmir, whether it is Article 370 or Artile 35 A of Constitution.

She added, “BJP said by abrogating 370, the issue of Kashmir has been resolved but the truth is that 370 has become even more complicated and resolving this has become even more difficult.’’

On the ban on wearing of hijab in schools, Mufti said, " Different kind of people live in India, wear different clothes, eat different food, but BJP wants to make it Godse's India. They want that people should wear one dress, say no to hijab, this is not Gandhi's India. This hijab thing is also a conspiracy to keep away our girls from getting their education. But our girls are very intelligent, they will not let their education suffer.”

"Their effort is to keep people confused; people are being raided daily, even today the NIA raids happened. Different names of militants have been coined - Hybrid Militant, White Colour Militant so that people cannot speak, cannot raise voice, cannot protest,” she said. "It will not last long. The BJP too will go like East India Company, left India. People of Jammu and Kashmir will come out of this trouble, and they will not only get back their lost honour, but the Kashmir issue will also get resolved,” she said