Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 13: All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) today said that the internal bickering and disintegration of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken place due to the wrong polices of present party President and former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti.
In a statement, APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina said that Mehbooba Mufti failed not only as Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, but also as President of PDP.
Raina said that Mehbooba could not pursue the agenda as set out by her father Late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and it is due to reason that PDP has disintegrated like a pack of nine pins.
The APSCC Chairman said that Mehbooba played truant with the Sikh community of the state by denying them rights that were due to them under the National Minorities Act.
He said the PDP President in fact sabotaged the extension of minority status to Sikhs of the State by filing a counter affidavit in the court of law and that too at the highest level. “Before 2014 Assembly elections, Mufti Sayeed promised before a huge gathering of Sikhs that he would give minority status to Sikhs of Jammu & Kashmir and the same formed a part of the party manifesto for those elections. However, for three and half years the powerful Kashmiri Pandit lobby ensured that Mufti does not fulfill the promises made to the Sikh community,” Raina said.
The APSCC Chairman said that after being elected as CM of state in 2016, Mehbooba was keen to implement the central policies in state but her advisor Prof. Amitabh Mattoo manipulated certain orders and rephrased the same so that the Kashmiri Pandits get benefitted out of the revised orders.
He demanded that Election Commission of India should ban PDP since the party went against its own election manifesto by opposing minority status to Sikhs and that too in the Apex Court of country.
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