Mehbooba links support for NC in Rajya Sabha polls with passage of two bills
Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has said that her party will vote for National Conference (NC) in the forthcoming polls to elect Rajya Sabha members from IIOJK only if the latter “helps to pass few of PDP’s bills in the assembly.”
According to Kashmir Media Service, Mehbooba Mufti addressing media persons in Srinagar said NC President Farooq Abdullah called her up to seek PDP’s vote, but didn’t mince her words to say that this was possible only if NC promises to help in the passage of their bills in the Assembly.
“Farooq Sahab called me up, saying they were in need of support. I told him that, as far as lending support is concerned, our senior leadership will discuss that. I also told him to help pass a few of our bills in the Assembly, such as the regularisation of land and daily wagers,” Mehbooba said. “If the NC helps in passing these bills, we may consider voting for them,” she added.
Mehbooba said there has been an atmosphere of fear since 2019, where properties have been attached and people have been detained in large numbers. “There was a sort of surveillance in occupied Jammu and Kashmir which made people scared to make a point. All this used to come across as abnormal, but Omar’s government has normalised these things,” she remarked.
She blamed the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah-led government for not speaking up and being unable to show resistance. “They didn’t even provide aid to people languishing in jails outside Jammu and Kashmir, which they had promised to do”, she lamented.
