Mufti’s decision to form govt with BJP as difficult as accession choice made by Abdullah: Mehbooba
28 May, Srinagar
Defending former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s decision to form a government with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state, an emotional Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said the decision was as difficult as the choice National Conference (NC) founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah took to accede to India in 1947.
“I believe that the decision taken by Mr Sayeed to form a government with BJP was as difficult as the decision National Conference (NC) founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah took to accede to India in 1947. The decision was difficult for Abdullah because J&K was a Muslim majority state and India was a Hindu dominated country, but still had take this decision in the interest of the people. ”
Similarly, my father took a decision and stood by his decision because he believed in the idea of India,” Ms Mufti said during her speech on Motion of Thanks on Governor’s address in the Legislative Assembly here this afternoon.
“I also opposed my father when he decided to form the government with BJP. But he made me to understand that there is no other choice to serve the people,” he said. Hitting out at critics for propagating that by forging a government with BJP, a particular ideology will be implanted in the state, she said the root of Jammu and Kashmir’s ideology is so strong that nothing can deter that. ”
By saying a particular school of thought will deter the ideology of the people of the state is doing injustice with the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the same Kashmir valley where leaders from minority community were elected as representatives of a majority community,” she said.
Reiterating that it was her father’s passion to work for his people that compelled her to take this decision, Ms Mufti said it is his conviction and vision that is the driving force behind her. “I wouldn’t have created a government till the time I was fully satisfied, but it was my father’s passion to work for his people that compelled me to do so, an emotional Ms Mufti said.
“During the last days of my father, when he was admitted at the hospital, he was angry with doctors; he asked them why they were wasting his time. He said he had a lot of work to do for the people of his state. He wanted to know about the status of the flood relief. He wanted to know the outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi visit to Pakistan to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif,” she said.
She said these were the things which compelled her to take this decision. “My father has shown us the way and it is my duty to follow his path,” she added.