Mufti on ‘Sadhbavna Tour’ to Goa for Modi’s PR mission: Mattu
National Conference on Thursday ridiculed Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s desperation to travel to Goa to speak at a seminar organized by an RSS patronized, right-wing think tank to deliver a lecture aimed at eulogizing the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi viz-a-viz Kashmir. “CM Mufti has sadly taken to being an RSS Pracharak like a duck takes to water. At a time when both the Prime Minister and his party stand condemned throughout the country for the growth of government patronized intolerance and anti-minority radicalism, Mufti has been employed to tour the country to praise the Prime Minister and the RSS. His Goa lecture at a right-wing think-tank that has BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav on its Board of Directors is the latest attempt by the PDP Patron to be of unconditional, sycophantic service to the RSS”, NC Spokesperson Junaid Mattu said in a statement issued from Srinagar on Thursday.“The new depths to which our Chief Minister is willing to stoop is shocking to say the least. While there is an unprecedented wave of repression in the State especially the Valley, Mufti Sahab has left for Goa on a ‘Sadhbavna Tour’ to be an apologetic drum-beater of the Prime Minister’s new PR mission necessitated after BJP’s humiliating debacle in Bihar, “the NC Spokesperson said.
“Mufti Sahab could be bending over backwards to flatter the RSS for a variety of personal reasons. There is widespread speculation in the State that Mufti Sahab is trying to get the RSS to attest the mutation of power in favour of his daughter Mehbooba Mufti. There are other speculations which suggest that Mufti Sahab has been employed with the task to become an RSS Pracharak failing which BJP would dislodge him from the CM’s chair. While speculations are diverse, one thing is certain – Mufti Sahab has degraded the institution of the Chief Minister to never seen depths of sycophancy – and that too towards the RSS and the BJP”, the NC Spokesperson further stated.
Mattu also mentioned that Mufti Sayeed would be best described as a ‘Roaming CM’ who has spent most of his time visiting Bollywood and dining with the social and corporate elite in metropolitan cities. “Rather than focusing on dispensing basic governance in J&K and rather than fulfilling the promises made with the people of the State, Mufti Sahab has found his calling of escapism in these tours outside the State – often accompanied by the State’s Finance Minister – who has been an enormous disaster for the State’s economy. There are unprecedented power woes in the State ahead of the approaching winter months, there is a steep rise in inflation and the Government is busy arresting youth across the Valley – further widening the gap of alienation in the State, “added Mattu.
