Splitting PDP will have 'dangerous outcomes', Mehbooba Mufti tells Delhi
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has warned the Centre of "dangerous outcomes" if it tries to break her Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).
"If Delhi, tries to dismiss the voting rights of people like 1987, if it tries to create divisions and interfere like that then I think just like a Salahuddin and a Yasin Malik were born in 1987...if it tries to break PDP like that then outcomes will be dangerous," ANI quoted Mufti as saying in Srinagar.
Her reaction was apparently to the reported moves of her former ally Bharatiya Janata Party to split the PDP and come back to power in the state. Over the past few weeks since the BJP withdrew support to her government at least four PDP MLAs had hit out strongly against her.
Mufti's outburst drew a sharp retort from her political rival and another former chief minister Omar Abdullah who tweeted that her remark was "really desperate".
"She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration," he wrote.
The National Conference leader also posted to Twitter that "not one new militant" would be created with the breakup of the PDP.
Mufti's comment came a day after the PDP leadership cracked the whip on those who had revolted, removing legislator Yasir Reshi as the party's Bandipora district president.
MLAs Imran Ansari, Abid Ansari and Abbas Wani are the other three legislators who have questioned her, while 21 others met her and pledged their support.
The dissenters have accused Mufti of nepotism, and called for an alternative to the "two family system" - a reference to the Abdullahs and the Muftis - of power in Jammu and Kashmir.
"If Delhi, tries to dismiss the voting rights of people like 1987, if it tries to create divisions and interfere like that then I think just like a Salahuddin and a Yasin Malik were born in 1987...if it tries to break PDP like that then outcomes will be dangerous," ANI quoted Mufti as saying in Srinagar.
Her reaction was apparently to the reported moves of her former ally Bharatiya Janata Party to split the PDP and come back to power in the state. Over the past few weeks since the BJP withdrew support to her government at least four PDP MLAs had hit out strongly against her.
Mufti's outburst drew a sharp retort from her political rival and another former chief minister Omar Abdullah who tweeted that her remark was "really desperate".
"She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to have forgotten that militancy in Kashmir has already been reborn under her most able administration," he wrote.
She must really be desperate if she is threatening the centre with renewed militancy if PDP breaks up. She seems to… https://t.co/3UgHkq2HgZ
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) 1531453328000The National Conference leader also posted to Twitter that "not one new militant" would be created with the breakup of the PDP.
Mufti's comment came a day after the PDP leadership cracked the whip on those who had revolted, removing legislator Yasir Reshi as the party's Bandipora district president.
MLAs Imran Ansari, Abid Ansari and Abbas Wani are the other three legislators who have questioned her, while 21 others met her and pledged their support.
The dissenters have accused Mufti of nepotism, and called for an alternative to the "two family system" - a reference to the Abdullahs and the Muftis - of power in Jammu and Kashmir.