Praising Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, who is currently touring different parts of the country in connection with his “Bharat Jodo yatra”, Chief of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Sunday taunted Union Home Minister Amit Shah by dragging name of his son, other BJP Ministers and their children over the allegations of practising 'dynastic politics'.
Constant bashing by the Union Home Minister during his recent visit to J&K and painting the Kashmir based regional political parties in bad light apparently provoked Mehbooba Mufti. Hitting back she went on to accuse the BJP of itself practising 'dynastic' politics. Mufti was addressing a day long convention of party workers here in Jammu.
Cozying up to the Congress party and positioning herself as someone closer to some of the prominent Dogra families of Jammu, Mehbooba asked Amit Shah to explain, "Why he skips references of his own party men when he talks about 'dynastic' politics ".
"Political parties namely Congress, PDP, National Conference, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janta Dal and others may be having dynastic leaders but BJP's tally is 10 times bigger than these leaders' ', Mehbooba charged
She bluntly questioned Amit Shah, "when you talk about 'dynastic' politics, when you talk about 'Shahzada' (referring to Rahul Gandhi) why don't you talk about your own 'Shahzada'.Why don't you mention his name? You don't mention the names of Arun Jaitley's son, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Anurag Thakur, younger son of Sahib Singh Verma and others". She explained, "why am I mentioning all these names. They are heading different sports bodies and enjoying the perks and privileges".
In a sarcastic tone Mehbooba Mufti even asked the audience to tell her, "Have they ever seen Jay Shah handling a cricket bat? I want to ask if Arun Jaitley's son really knows how to play a game? She alleged, "since several hundred crores of rupees are involved it is for this reason these people have been saddled there". But all they remember is Shahzada (Rahul Gandhi ). They ridicule him. But he (Rahul Gandhi) is touring different parts of the country to preserve the 'political legacy' of his family. She appealed to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to unite in order to save the secular fabric of India.
Launching a scathing attack on the BJP Mehbooba Mufti said, BJP talks about rampant corruption in Jammu and Kashmir but today i want to ask who is indulging in corrupt practices,Why the Union Territory administration has cancelled the selection lists of different competitive exams conducted for filling vacant posts in the different departments. Who is involved in these irregularities? We want to know the identity of those people allegedly behind these recruitment scams? Mehbooba also accused the BJP of unleashing different central agencies to topple elected governments and destroying the spirit of Democracy.
Reaching out to the people of Jammu region, where she claimed she had spent long years of her youth, Mehbooba said before the abrogation of Article 370 these leaders used to propagate that the kashmiris were siphoning off their share of developmental funds and depriving them (people of Jammu). Hence it was necessary to Abrogate Article 370. And now they are saying they will make a CM from Jammu. Mufti claimed, "the decision to elect a Chief Minister will be taken by the common masses. If BJP really wanted they could have made a Lieutenant Governor (LG) from Jammu but instead, they made the LG of Jammu and Kashmir from Uttar Pradesh,Bihar and other places". Didn't anyone from Jammu deserve to be the LG or even his advisor?” Mufti asked.They could have made a Chief Secretary from Jammu or even the Chairman of the J&k Bank from the Jammu region. She claimed the people of Jammu region which elected the maximum number of BJP legislators were feeling suffocated and can't even share their angst. "They are even taunted for bringing them to power but they are helpless. Even Mufti Mohd Sayeed decided to join hands with the BJP because people of Jammu region had voted them to power".
The Former Chief Minister winded her speech by asking people of J&K to get united like people of Ladakh to secure their land and jobs.