The State Congress chief G A Mir Thursday questioned BJP’s silence over the induction of Tassaduq Mufti, younger brother of chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, in the state cabinet, saying the party which had made dynasty rule an issue in poll campaigns is “keeping its eyes closed.”
“It is easy to deliver sermons but when it comes to one’s own house, the BJP is silent today,” said Mir.
“If you look at this government, over two dozen relatives of Mehbooba are directly and indirectly running the affairs,” Mir told reporters at a function here.
When asked about the induction of Tassaduq into the cabinet, he said he had nothing personal against him but “those who spoke against dynasty rule, why are they silent today.”
“Tasaduq’s oath taking is the biggest backdoor entry. When they felt that they will be defeated in the bypolls (to Anantnag parliamentary seat), they ran away and now through backdoor entry he was inducted in the cabinet,” the Congress leader said.
Mir said it would have been a courageous step had the PDP vacated a seat and sought people’s mandate in his favour for his induction in the government.
“The people of Jammu and Kashmir are politically mature and fully understand every move of the government. Sometimes the people do not talk, but when the real time will come (elections), their fingers will talk,” he said.
Meanwhile, National Conference said the PDP was guided by a “singular goal” of empowering one family.
NC provincial chief Nasir Aslam Wani while addressing party workers in Bandipora said the division within the PDP was never “more acute and irreconcilable”.
“People who sacrificed for the PDP have been ignored to promote through the backdoor a person who was hardly known before his late father became the chief minister in 2015. These PDP leaders have been humiliated by their own party,” he said.
Congress taunts BJP, NC says empowering one family
