The opposition political parties alleged that the Jammu and Kashmir Chief minister is being insensitive towards the people of the Valley.
The opposition political parties have slammed Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for terming the current situation in Kashmir as street noise and blamed her for being insensitive towards the people of the Valley.
Soon after meeting the Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh in New Delhi, Mehbooba Mufti speaking to media said that in 2008, 60 to 70 people were killed and for one month street noise continued.
“2010, it continued for three months, 122 people were killed and now it has been about a month and 50- 55 people have been killed,” she said, adding that these are our children and our people. “If through dialogue the situation in Jammu and Kashmir changes and get normalised, our children could go to school, read and write and good atmosphere is created and JK becomes a bridge between India and Pakistan,” Mehbooba said.
“Terming the current situation in Kashmir as street noise (Hullaballoo), chief minister has made an insensitive remark, it is insult to people of state,” Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress president, Ghulam Ahmad Mir said. He said even after 31 days when more than 55 civilians have been killed and thousands have suffered injuries, chief minister is not feeling any heat. “By her today’s statement, it seems that she still is waiting when more than 120 people will get killed in the Valley. It also shows how serious is our chief minister towards the problems and situation.”
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National Conference working president and former J&K chief minister, Omar Abdullah said that it has taken more than 50 deaths to disturb chief minister.
“The amazing thing is that it’s taken 31 days & more than 50 deaths to finally “disturb” the Chief Minister,” Omar wrote on Twitter.
He further tweeted.”So@MehboobaMufti has finally given up on her ”business as usual” act & rushed to Delhi instead.”
Independent legislator, engineer Rashid termed remarks of the J&K chief minister as colonial and blunt. “It shows her colonial mindset and a blunt statement. Omar Abdullah would have also reacted in a similar way,” he said, adding that never any leader of mainstream political party has shown true mirror to New Delhi. “It is unfortunate that mainstream leaders are acting as puppets of New Delhi and they never bothered to look into genuine problems of Kashmiri people.”
