Omar Abdullah takes jibe at Mehbooba Mufti over meetings with PM, HM
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday took a jibe at incumbent Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti over her meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and other government leaders in New Delhi.
“While @MehboobaMufti goes door to door in Delhi to save her job the State teeters on the brink-student protests are the new worry,” Abdullah said on micro-blogging site Twitter.
Responding to Mufti’s assertion that the situation in the state would improve in two to three months after which dialogue could be held to seek amicable solution to the issues, the National Conference (NC) working president tweeted “The CM has managed to get herself a reprieve from the PM & secured her job for 3 more months. Sadly nothing will improve with her in office.”
Earlier on Sunday, the chief minister had at a meeting of NITI Aayog asked all the chief ministers to reach out to Kashmiri students in their states and treat them as their “own children”. She also wanted them to organise events in Jammu and Kashmir. The plea came in the wake of reported attacks on Kashmiri students in some parts of the country was endorsed by the Prime Minister.
But Abdullah tweeted “Before @MehboobaMufti goes about inviting other CMs to organise events in J&K how about getting her government to organise Anantnag LS poll.” The polling in Anantnag was scheduled to be held on April 12 but the same was deferred till May 25 by the Election Commission of India after acting on a report submitted by the State government on the widespread violence witnessed during the polling in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency on April 9 and possibility of its repetition in the Chief Minister's home constituency.
The NC leader asked the Chief Minister to wake up to the reality on ground. He tweeted, “Madam, you are UNABLE to hold elections to the Parliament seat you vacated. Please wake up & smell the reality of your leadership”.
Abdullah also responded to a photograph on Twitter showing a school girl kicking a police vehicle during students protests in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Monday. He said, “The reality that is Kashmir-she has her basketball & a brick in the same hand while she kicks the truck”.
