PDP Chief and former chief minister of J&K, Mehbooba Mufti also expressed her displeasure about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inability in restoring peace in the Valley.
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NEW DELHI — Reacting on the Supreme Court’s dismissal of petitions challenging the Rafale deal, PDP chief and former chief minister of J&K, Mehbooba Mufti said the BJP should also wait for the top court’s verdict on the Babri Masjid issue.
“Like the Rafale decision was welcomed, I hope they (the BJP) will wait for the decision (of Supreme Court) on Babri Masjid as well and won’t start pointing fingers at the SC. We have an institution which is highly respected,” Mehbooba Mufti said while replying to questions at an event held by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in Mumbai, reports PTI.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat and several BJP leader have been demanding an ordinance or a law to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya at the earliest.
In a ‘relief’ to the Modi government, the Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the pleas challenging the deal between India and France for procurement of 36 Rafale jets.
Reacting on the results of recent assembly elections in five states where BJP registered poor show and lost three cow-belt states to Congress, Mufti was all praise for Rahul Gandhi who spearheaded the election campaigns over there.
Praising Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his party’s success in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mehbooba Mufti said, “He fought his first election in 1994. He has given a lot of time. He is now arriving”.
Will Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will join as a part of the grand alliance, mahagathbandhan, to take the BJP in the 2019 Parliamentary elections, Mehbooba Mufti said although talks were taking place her party was a “small player” to be considered.
“Kashmir: The Way Forward”
On Kashmir issue Ms Mufti claimed that there is total distrust and disconnect between people of Kashmir and Delhi. She expressed her displeasure about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inability in restoring peace in the Valley.
Delivering a talk on “Kashmir: The Way Forward” at Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai, on Friday, Ms Mufti referred to the 2002-05 era of joint diplomacy, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister and her father Mufti Muhamed Sayed was the Chief Minister and said it was the “golden period of Kashmir.”
Ms Mufti addressed all dimensions of the Kashmir issue and its impending future. She called her party’s alliance with BJP in 2014 a “suicide”, which was done in the hope that Modi will pick up where Vajpayee left.
(With media inputs)
