Mehbooba Mufti takes out rally in Srinagar’s downtown, once considered a no-go zone
Mehbooba Mufti takes out rally in Srinagar’s downtown, once considered a no-go zone
Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti carried out a rally on Thursday (May 9) in Srinagar’s downtown area of Fateh Kadal. The area was once considered a no-go zone and known for its stone pelting and poll boycott, and now buzzing with the election sloganeering.
Mehbooba Mufti while addressing the people said, “We need to fight till the time we are alive. My father had a lot of concern for the people in Srinagar. Thousands of our youth are languishing in Jails. They are from poor families, and no one can go to meet them.”
She also added “In my tenure I made sure to secure the careers of youth. But today so many have been put in Jail and no one is talking about them. This election is not about electricity and not about PDP and NC.”
She said, “I tried a lot so that all the parties would work together. I even left to it Farooq Abdullah to decide. They said PDP has finished and they don’t need us. I don’t say anything against NC because our main enemy is bigger which is the BJP. The 2019 decision is not acceptable to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Violence is not a solution, but we have to keep talking about the issues. Giving a vote is the biggest weapon everyone has. We might not have much but whatever we have should be preserved. Kashmir is like a pressure cooker, and it will blast one day and finish everything.”