Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party has made Jammu and Kashmir into a “political experimental laboratory”, reported the Hindustan Times on Saturday.
Mufti accused the BJP of seeing everything through the prism of “petty electoral gains” and said that the party lacks the vision and resolve to make decisions that will heal the country. “Instead, it has chosen to take India down a dark and regressive path steeped in division, bigotry and hatred for minorities,” she said. “Unfortunately, J&K [Jammu and Kashmir] became a political experimental laboratory.”
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said that she would not go into an alliance with the BJP and that doing so was her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s idea. Sayeed was the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir two times, between November 2002 and November 2005, and again from March 2015 to January 2016, when he died.
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