Mehbooba Mufti threatens Taliban-like action in Kashmir, warns BJP government ‘don’t test our patience’
Glorifying Taliban, former Jammu & Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti said, “don’t test our patience and change your ways while you still have a chance” to which BJP replied “she can’t blackmail us.”
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday drew a comparison from the Taliban and warned the Centre to take lessons on how the militant group could throw out powerful America from Afghanistan and urged the Modi government to hold dialogue with Kashmiris and restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
She used the ant-elephant analogy to describe how the Taliban ousted NATO and other foreign powers.
In her speech, Mufti said, “don’t test our patience and change your ways while you still have a chance. Remember how Vajpayee initiated the peace process. You must restart talks with Kashmiris and return whatever you have looted.”
Earlier, this week Mufti said the institutions that were meant for protecting the rights of the people and upholding the Constitution of the country have been “Talibanised”. The former chief minister alleged that even the media has been Talibanised.
Attacking Mufti, BJP leader Nirmal Singh called her desperate and frustrated as she has lost political ground.
“If she thinks that she can blackmail us then she needs to understand that this is Modi’s India. Those days are gone and we will not be blackmailed,” he added.
After being released from detention in October last year, Mufti has repeatedly urged the Union government to hold talks with Pakistan.
On the second anniversary of the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, she took out a protest in Srinagar saying “we” will resist and force the government to speak to Pakistan to address external dimensions.
