Though Narendra Modi’s comparability with Attal Bihari Vajpayee was being questioned from the day he took chage as Prime Minister of India but perhaps Mehbooba Mufti was the only mainstream political leader in India who was drawing too many similarities between Modi and Vajpayee. While Vajpayee had gained international recognition for his intents and approaches on friendly relations with Pakistan as foreign minister of the Country the RSS sponsored Narendra Modi was known for his role in 2002 Gujrat riots. Keeping in view the contradictions in the political approaches of Vajpayee and Modi vis-à-vis India’s relations with Pakistan the alliance of PDP with BJP had come into question from the day one. So indifferent is the approach of Narendra Modi in handling contentious issues like Kashmir that even a staunch loyalist cabinet colleague of Attal Bihari Vajpayee choose to part ways with the Narendra Modi led BJP. Mehbooba Mufti not only knows all about the dissent within the BJP against the policies and approaches of Narendra Modi in running the central government but had herself seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually snubbing her father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed over India’s relations with Pakistan vis-à-vis Kashmir issue in full public glare at a well attended rally in November 2015 in Srinagar.
It is too late for Mehbooba Mufti to endorse the views of those who have been challenging Narendra Modi’s Kashmir policy for last four years as all known not PDP but BJP has called off the alliance with charges on discrimination in development against Jammu and Ladhak.
Political commentators had said that Mufti should have announced his decision to quit as Chief Minister than to patiently hear Narendra Modi asking him not to advice him on relations with Pakistan vis-à-vis Kashmir issue. Had Mehbooba Mufti been concerned about the workability of the agenda of alliance (AoA) she would have advised her father to call off the alliance with BJP. After the fall of her government Mehbooa Mufti says the Vajpayee’s era was a golden era and in Narendra Modi’s time Kashmir suffered but she won’t find any takers for this argument now. It is too late for Mehbooba Mufti to endorse the views of those who have been challenging Narendra Modi’s Kashmir policy for last four years as all known not PDP but BJP has called off the alliance with charges on discrimination in development against Jammu and Ladhak.
