Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 21: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today said that Dr Farooq Abdullah’s statement on Afzal Guru’s hanging would have been laughable if his collaboration in the act had not cost a life out of turn. She said Afzal was a victim of the UPA Government in power at the Center and in the State and he was picked up from 28th position in a crass display of a mindset that treats Muslims as dispensable, in a desperate bid to stop Modi’s rise and improve Congress chances.
“Nobody has been hanged except Afzal only because it was not a DMK or an Akali Dal that could defend his rights but National Conference that has sacrificed our individual and collective interests all along for Abdullah family’s power, luxury and fortune”, added Mehbooba.
Addressing wayside meetings in Bijbehara segment of Anantnag Parliamentary constituency, Mehbooba said Dr Farooq Abdullah is lying when he says he had no knowledge of Afzal’s hanging and that it had been carried out at an official’s level.
She reminded Abdullah of his remarks recommending Afzal’s execution one year before the secret hanging took place and said the NC leader had said on February 24, 2012 in Jammu that “Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru should pay the price for attacking India. Anyone who attacks India should pay the price for it.”
Hitting out at NC leadership for defaming Kashmir and its people throughout the country she said no person could ever abuse his own people by calling them Mahachors (big thieves) and then come to seek votes from them.
Mehbooba said the contempt and hatred that the Sheikh family harbours for Kashmir comes out at all crucial junctures despite their best efforts to hide it at the time of seeking votes. Referring to the Omar Government’s prosecution of youth in 2010 Mehbooba said the NC had branded those young people who sought justice for their dead friends as drug addicts, LeT agents, paid criminals and the accused included even 12 year olds who were handcuffed and held under PSA.
Referring to Omar Abdullah’s godfather remark against the PDP leadership Mehbooba said considering the background of Mufti Saheb and Farooq Saheb it is obvious whose god father Modi could be. For a person who could ‘detect Allah in Modi’s eyes’, the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate is not mere political figure but a part of his spiritual make up, Mehbooba said.
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