Irfan Ahmad
Srinagar Nov 03 (KINS): People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that Jammu and Kashmir should act as a bridge of peace between India, Pakistan and China.
Speaking to reporters as per news agency KINS, the former J&K chief minister said that the PDP’s agenda has always been that J&K acts as a ‘bridge of peace’ between India and its neighbouring countries. She said her late father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s dream of making J&K as a bridge between New Delhi, Islamabad and Beijing needs to be fulfilled.
The PDP chief, who has vociferously opposed the scrapping or Article 370, said that earlier all laws were made in consultation with the public, but now laws are being imposed on Kashmiris which are against their existence and we won’t tolerate it. “Our battle is for restoration of special status of Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.
Recently she stoked a controversy saying that PDP would not hoist the Tricolour unless her party is allowed to raise the flag of Jammu and Kashmir also. Her comments didn’t go down well with three of her party leaders. Three senior PDP leaders resigned to protest against party president’s stand on the Tricolour.
Mainstream political parties of Jammu and Kashmir, including National Conference, PDP, People’s Conference, Communist Party of India (Marxist) have joined hands to form Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) to restore Article 370. While NC leader Farooq Abdullah is the president of PAGD, Mufti is the vice-chairperson, CPM leader M Y Tarigami has been appointed as the convenor and Lok Sabha member from south Kashmir Hasnain Masoodi has been elected as the coordinator. (KINS)
