Jammu: Mehbooba Mufti, the president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had defended the controversial statement of her father and Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Monday. Notify that Mufti Muhammad Sayeed had given credit to separatist leaders, militants and Pakistan for the smooth conduct of the assembly election.
Mehbooba told reporters, “I stand by the remarks made by Mufti Sahib. He is not a person who makes a remark and later denies having made it.”
She also said, “If the separatists have not gone from door to door telling people to boycott those elections, we should acknowledge that.”
Sayeed had ruffled many a feather especially among his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruling ally by telling his first media conference that had Pakistan, Hurriyat and the militants tried to disrupt elections in the state last year, there would not have been good participation.
CM Sayeed said, “If God forbid the Hurriyat and the militants tried to disrupt the elections these would not have been as participative as they had been.”
Sayeed had said, “They (Pakistan) also allowed these elections to take place.”
Notify that Former Chief Minister of J&K Omar Abdullah and leader of Congress party in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi had also criticizes the remark of Sayeed. Ghulam Nabi Azad also demanded an explanation from the central government over these remarks.
Meanwhile Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had reacted to Sayeed’s statement in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
He also asserts that the credit for the smooth conduct of the election goes to the Election Commission of India, the security forces and the people of the state.
Rajnath Singh said the BJP government and the party dissociate themselves from the remarks made by Sayeed.
Bureau Report
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