Fayaz Bukhari
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was not allowed to hold a meeting on the eve of the death anniversary of its patron, late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, with Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter not being allowed to move out from her residence.
The party had sought a permission from the Divisional Commissioner, to hold a public gathering on the occasion. However, the administration had not given them any reply so far.
Party spokesperson, Abdul Hameed Koshin told reporters here that they have not heard any word from the administration with regard to holding a meeting on the eve. The party workers later held a meeting at the party headquarters instead.
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On the other side, Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter-who has been quite vocal post abrogation of Article 370 and downgrading the erstwhile J&K State to the level of Union Territory-also tried to come out of her residence at Gupkar at 11 in the morning. However, she was not allowed.
While talking to the media persons waiting outside the gate, Iltija said that she is not being allowed to move out and that the police have confined her to the residence.
“I am not even being allowed to talk to the media persons; the PM can go and meet his mother while talking an array of the media persons along with him, why cannot I go to pay a visit to my grandfather’s grave?” she asked.
After much altercation with the police personnel at the gate of her residence, Iltija was taken away from the gate and asked to secure a permission to go out of the residence, to which she asked the police if the Section 144 was in place that she was not being allowed to move out.
Koshin said that the administration was also not allowing them to meet the party president, Mehbooba Mufti. He also alleged that the workers of the other parties were being allowed to meet their leader, “but we have not been allowed to do that so far,” he said.
He also alleged that the PDP leaders who were released recently were released on conditions. “They were categorically told not to indulge in any sort of activity and not to attend the party meeting on the eve of the death anniversary of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,” he alleged.
Some of the PDP leaders, however, went Bijbehara and held prayers at the grave of Mufti. They included MP Nazir Laway and sister of Mehbooba Mufti, Rubaiya Sayeed.
Talking to the media persons on the sidelines of the grave of PDP’s patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, where he managed to reach unlike others, Laway said: “Mehbooba Mufti is a no body-no one is able to expel me from the party.”
Laway said that a third front comprising NC-PDP-Congress is imminent in Kashmir and that he is not going to be a member of that front whatsoever. “I will not be a part of it, but of something else which is also on cards in the Valley,” he added.
While commenting over the role of the regional parties, Laway said that the existence of these parties is gone. “These parties are no more and have got no role on the political landscape of the Valley,” he said.
Laway announced the sum of Rs 50 lakh for face lifting the grave of the PDP patron and to carry out other works around it.
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