Though PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti in one of her recent remarks said that she as Chief Minister would have resisted the way Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Benerjee resist against the Modi government if her party the huge mandate which Farooq Abdullah as Chief Minister had from 1996 till 2002 but question can be asked that why she and her father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed did not choose to form a non-BJP post poll alliance in 2015 January to keep BJP out of power in Jammu and Kashmir the only muslim majority of the country. After all Mehbooba did not dare to go back to the people for the decisive mandate the way Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal went back to people and returned with a huge mandate. Fact remains that Mehbooba did not choose to show faith in her own people and choose to go for alliance with the BJP instead of going back to the people of Kashmir for a clear mandate to run a government on her own in Jammu and Kashmir state. The attempt of Mehbooba Mufti to enter into a blame game with her political rivals particularly Abdullahs’ are sufficient enough to indicate that she and her party leaders are in complete distress as they find no answers to the questions the educated youth of Kashmir tend to pose them during the campaigning for ensuing Lok Sabha elections in the state. Mehbooba may not find answers also to questions on her complete silence over the core agenda of her party during last more than three years of PDP-BJP coalition rule in the state as the fact remains that Mehbooba’s silence over the core agenda of her party was sufficient enough to indicate that PDP had almost taken off the self rule document from the party’s core agenda and put into a dustbin perhaps at the RSS headquarters at Nagpur.
Mehbooba won’t find any takers for her remarks either over ban on Jamat-e-Islami or NIA raids against top separatist leaders as she herself was the architect of the policy pursued with greater intensity now when the state is under the presidential rule. Mehbooba Mufti is delivering sermons to youth who are angered over the failure of the justice delivery system in the state during her two year stint as Chief Minister of the state. So not the youth in Kashmir but Mehbooba Mufti herself is in distress.
Revival of Cordon and Search Operation on post 1989 pattern and failure of Mehbooba in replacing the pellet guns with less lethal weapons show the intensity of the resistance PDP was showing to the BJP government at the centre. Almost two years back when Prime Minister during her visit to Jammu in connection with the inauguration of Chenani-Nashri tunnel asked youth to prefer “tourism” over “terrorism” Mehbooba Mufti as Chief Minister preferred to say that “youth are in distress” instead of demanding the replacement of pellet guns with less lethal weapons and call off the cordon and search operations continued with greater intensity in Kashmir valley. Mehbooba won’t find any takers for her remarks either over ban on Jamat-e-Islami or NIA raids against top separatist leaders as she herself was the architect of the policy pursued with greater intensity now when the state is under the presidential rule. Mehbooba Mufti is delivering sermons to youth who are angered over the failure of the justice delivery system in the state during her two year stint as Chief Minister of the state. So not the youth in Kashmir but Mehbooba Mufti herself is in distress.
