On Sunday, Mehbooba Mufti was placed under house arrest in her official residence in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar city.
Mehbooba Mufti was arrested ahead of a scheduled visit to Shopian and says, “GOI wants to push the plight of Kashmiri pandits under the rug because its their callous policies that’ve led to unfortunate targeted killings of those who chose not to flee. On August 16, terrorists killed a local Kashmiri Pandit Sunil Kumar in the area that causing much uproar.
She was scheduled to visit Chotigam village where terrorists had killed a local Kashmiri Pandit. She said that the BJP was “Projecting us mainstream as their enemy is why Ive been placed under house arrest today”
On Saturday, Mehbooba Mufti slammed the Congress, accusing it of failing to rally the opposition in support of the Aam Aadmi Party, whose leaders are being investigated by central agencies. Congress leader Manickam Tagore hit back, saying Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and his “gang” were caught in a “real corrupt act” and deserve to be brought to justice.
Mufti took to Twitter also to tell Congress that its leaders too were “victims” of the “Enforcement Directorate onslaught”. Delhi Congress leaders and workers staged a protest on Saturday demanding the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia a day after the CBI carried out raids at his residence in connection with the alleged irregularities in the rollout of Delhi’s Excise Policy 2021-22.
She said, “Sad that the Congress is unable to rise above party interests because AAP is a formidable opponent. Having been a victim themselves of ED (Enforcement Directorate) onslaught yet they are joining BJPs propaganda. “At a time when agencies are being weaponised, the opposition should’ve rallied together (sic),” the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said. Tagore, the Lok Sabha member from Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu, wondered why the Congress should give AAP leaders a “safe passage” when they had “thrown dirt on all honest political leadership”
It is unfortunate that the Opposition cannot unite at the grave time when the BJP is targeting and weakening all the parties, but perhaps the Congress can never forgive AAP for being the “backface of the RSS” as they say that was raised to unseat and destroy the Congress from power in the 2014 elections and from then on, its has been extremely hard for Congress to get a solid foothold though they are slowly streaming back and have won a considerable amount of local elections.