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Mehbooba Mufti slams BJP: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday (June 24) mentioned that Jammu and Kashmir, which she had as soon as dominated earlier than being bifurcated into two Union Territories, was a ‘laboratory’ for the BJP, towards whom over 15 opposition events got here collectively at a single stage in Patna yesterday to strategize the right way to oust it from energy on the Centre.
Alleging that three former chief ministers have been ‘put in jail’ following the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, Mufti mentioned that if the BJP returns to energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it is going to undertake the ‘Kashmirisation’ of the entire nation.
“There is, certainly, an assault on the thought of India. It was most evident once they abrogated Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and put its leaders, together with three former chief ministers, in jail”, Mufti mentioned whereas speaking to the reporters, a day after the grand assembly at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s residence on Friday.
‘JK was a laboratory’
“JK was a laboratory. What we see in Delhi today, by way of the central ordinance, started much earlier in our state. Unfortunately, few people understood it back then. The BJP, if it returns to power in 2024, will trample upon the Constitution and undertake Kashmirisation of the whole country,” Mufti, who was the chief minister of the federal government shaped with the help of the BJP earlier than the celebration determined to drag away from the alliance in June 2018, mentioned.
When requested in regards to the Aam Aadmi Party’s allegation that Congress ‘refused’ to oppose the Centre’s ordinance on the companies of the Delhi authorities, Mufti mentioned that it was ‘by no means the central challenge of the assembly’.
“Of course, Kejriwal raised the issue of ordinance, but we all were focused on issues of the idea of India and the assaults on the Constitution. Of course, Congress being a national party has its own way of airing its opinions on sensitive issues after due deliberations. Nobody has a problem with it,” she mentioned.
AAP’s help to Article 370 abrogation
Reminded in regards to the AAP’s help to the Bill that ended the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, the PDP chief mentioned that numerous opposition events didn’t ‘notice the implications’ of their transfer.
“It is true that many events against the BJP then didn’t notice the implications of what was happening. But I did not come holding grudges,” she mentioned.
“The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that Article 370 could not be scrapped until a recommendation to that effect came from the constituent assembly of Jammu and Kashmir. But the BJP bulldozed everything”, the previous chief minister added.
Responding to a question if the difficulty of the opposition’s prime ministerial face was mentioned on the assembly yesterday, Mufti mentioned that there isn’t a want for it.
“Where is the need? The parties which attended the meeting had together polled more than 60 per cent of votes in the last Lok Sabha polls,” she mentioned.
Opposition assembly in Patna
The high leaders of over 15 political events participated in a gathering convened by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at his residence in Patna. Top opposition leaders participated within the assembly geared toward bringing collectively all like-minded events on one platform.
Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Arvind Kejriwal, MK Stalin, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Hemant Soren have been among the many collaborating leaders within the assembly. The subsequent opposition huddle will happen in Shimla on July 10-12.
(With PTI inputs)
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