Kashmir Scenario Exclusive
Enjoying a long political career, On 4 April 2016, Mehbooba Mufti took the oath and became the first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.One fails to understand which Mehbooba Mufti one is watching- firebrand, pro-people and aggressive against human rights violations, calling for dispute resolutions as must when she was opposition leader for more than a decade, but now as Chief Minister she is seen insensitive, intolerant and clueless .The 2016 civil agitation ignited by killing of Militant commander Burhan Wani has brought her inconstancy as a leader to fore a look at few statements proves this reality.
Kashmir is like a colony of India: PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, stated this on first October, 2013, while commenting over the issue of killings of civilians at Srinagar.
At Doda, on November 6, 2014 ,Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti said the BJP is playing with fire by trying to divide state on ethnic and communal lines for electoral gains.
Give them a chance, and the BJP would even change the history and geography of India, stated Mehbooba Mufti in an interview in 2002.
On March 15, 2014 , Mehbooba Mufti dubbed after civilian killing the NC-Cong government ‘youth eaters’.
“So many youths have been killed in the past five-and-a-half years that the government seems like a man-eater or a youth eater,” she said.
On August 27, 2016 ,Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti stated – “ Pakistan has been openly trying to provoke and fuel tensions in the Valley.”
On August 25, 2016 in an press conference Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti stated – ““Were the kids going to the army camp to buy toffees? A 15-year-old boy, who attacked a local police station, was he out buying milk?” she asked the reporter. She also said that a majority of the children who had lost their lives or were injured “had been attacking security camps and so they faced retaliation.”
“These selfish people with vested interests made these small children lead attacks on police stations and security forces camps virtually making them act as their shield during stone pelting,” she said, addressing a gathering during the inauguration of the first phase of sewerage treatment plant at Bhagwati Nagar here.
Mehbooba Mufti’s hypocrisy has been thrown wide open after assuming the reins of power and acted as a blow to the hopes of pain hit people of Kashmir.