SRINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi can take bold steps like resuming talks with Pakistan and is better for Jammu and Kashmir than his predecessor Manmohan Singh who could not even visit his ancestral home there, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said today.
“If there is any leader who can talk to Pakistan it is him (Modi). Manmohan singh was the Prime Minister for 10 years. He had a wish to visit the other side (Pakistan) as he was born there and wanted to see his ancestral home. But he could not muster courage,” Mufti said here.
Modi, she said, went to Lahore in December 2015 on the wedding of Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s kin adding that terror attacks in Pathankot, Uri and Nagrota had happended after that..
“Even then, if there is anyone with the mandate to heal the wounds of people of Jammu and Kashmir, take the state out of the morass, start dialogue with Pakistan and make the atmosphere conducive, it is only Narendra Modiji and no one else,” Mehbooba said addressing PDP workers in the south Kashmir district of Anantnag. (AGENCIES)
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