New Delhi | The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday slammed former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti over her statement on the deployment of troops in the valley.
BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said,” Mehbooba Mufti had been the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, it is her responsibility to worry about the safety and security of common citizens. She should stop worrying about the terrorists and rather worry about the security of common citizens.”
“The centre’s move to deploy security forces is for ensuring the safety of the people. Terrorists should be worried and not common people,” she added.
Earlier Mufti warned the Centre against the revocation of Article 35A, saying any tinkering with the constitutional provision would be akin to setting a powder keg on fire.
Addressing a function to celebrate the Peoples Democratic Party’s 20th raising day, Mufti asked her party workers to get ready for a big fight for the protection of Article 35A, which gives special rights and privileges to the state’s permanent residents.
“We want to tell the Central government that tinkering with Article 35A will be akin to setting a powder keg on fire,” the PDP president said. “If any hand tries to touch Article 35A, not only that hand, but that whole body will be burnt to ashes.”
The Centre on Thursday ordered the deployment of an additional 100 companies of CAPFs “in order to strengthen the CI (counter-insurgency) grid as well as for maintaining law and order situation” in Jammu and Kashmir.
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