Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 18: Mehbooba Mufti in her recent statement on X (formerly Twitter) has called Bharat as an “occupation force” and equated the citizens of the Jammu and Kashmir as “slaves”. She has uploaded an article titled “From Citizens To Slaves” published in the monthly newsletter of PDP. There is no doubt that ever since the Supreme Court has put its stamp on the historic decision of PM Modi to abrogate the Article 370 and Article 35A, Mehbooba type conflict beneficiaries have become frustrated and demoralized. The SC judgement is a huge setback to the divisive politics on which PDP survives. “PDP along with NC has been vying to fill up the space vacated by the Hurriyat to carry forward its separatist agenda to woo the fringe voters and pro-Pakistan lobby the remnants of which are still prevalent in the sub-nationalist political ecosystem created in the Valley by them,” stated Brig Anil Gupta, spokesperson of the BJP.
Mehbooba’s statement is not only provocative but also seditious. She has been time and again targeting the Indian Armed Forces but by equating them to “occupational forces” she has not only crossed all the limits but has in fact sounded the bugle for waging the war against the nation.
“BJP demands that both the PDP president and author of the article be booked and punished under the said sections,” asserted Brig Gupta.
PDP and its leadership suffers from a tunnel-vision and cannot see beyond Kashmir, forgetting that the Jammu region also forms part of the UT and the people of Jammu have not given her mandate to speak on their behalf. While the brothers and sisters in Kashmir must be cursing her for calling them “slaves”, the people of Jammu are furious and determined to write the obituary of the discriminatory, divisive and seditious politics of her party. By referring to the Lithium mines being in Kashmir, the party has made obvious its mindset of denying Jammu its rightful due. Lithium mining will change the geo-economics of the entire region and at the same time make a sea-change in the economic standards of the residents of Reasi and its neighbouring areas falling in Jammu region”. claimed Brig Gupta.
As regards power crisis is concerned the blame rests squarely with the Kashmir based regional parties and Congress which looted the State exchequer to benefit the few in the garb of Roshni Scheme which ultimately turned out to be a huge scam.
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