They will use grenades, guns in coming polls: Mehbooba on BJ

SRINAGAR: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, who is also vice president of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), on Wednesday levelled serious allegations against the BJP, saying that the party “will use grenades and guns” in the coming elections to save their face. She claimed that the BJP is unnerved and now it wants to do anything to win the coming DDC elections by force.

The PDP chief told reporters at Zainapora, Shopian, in South Kashmir that she had come to meet the PAGD candidate who was not allowed by the police to come out of his home in the past 15 days to campaign in his favour.

“LG Manoj Sinha and SEC K.K. Sharma are making false claims that every candidate is allowed to go for campaigning. That’s why today, I came here myself to tell people of Zainapora and Shopian to vote for only PAGD candidates for God’s sake so that BJP is kept away,” Mehbooba told reporters.

“They (BJP) will use Grenades and guns to bag seats, but people should defeat BJP this time and ensure victory of PAGD candidates,” she said.

Meanwhile, the NIA on Wednesday formally arrested close party colleague of Mehbooba and PDP youth wing president Waheed Parra in connection with a case related to ‘separatism’ in Jammu and Kashmir.

Mehbooba, in a series of tweets on the land grabbing charges and also on the arrest of Waheed Parra, levelled serious charges against the BJP. Incidentally Waheed got the summons from the NIA on the same day in the evening when he filed his nomination for the upcoming DDC elections. Responding to the arrest of Waheed, Mehbooba said in a tweet, “Waheed has no connection whatsoever with this man and is being falsely charged. All just to blackmail and intimidate PDP and other mainstream political parties in J&K.”

In a series of tweets, she blamed the BJP for using the Gujarat model of persecuting Muslims in Kashmir. She said, “Gujarat model of persecuting Muslims is in full swing since August 2019 in J&K. This is the Naya Kashmir they want us to live in.”

In another tweet she said, “PDP’s @parawahid applauded by then HM @rajnathsingh for strengthening democracy in J&K has been arrested on baseless charges by NIA today. No coincidence that he filed his nomination for DDC on 20th Nov & received NIA summons next day itself.”