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Our uncompromising stand ended PDP BJP alliance: Mehbooba

Srinagar
December 30, 2020

People�s Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that had she �compromised with the principles of the party,� the PDP-BJP alliance would have never fallen apart. Mufti said she never agreed on BJPs policy of �coming down hard on stone pelters, Jamaat-e-Islami and not returning bodies of slain militants to their families�.

�We formed the Government but didn�t compromise on our agenda. We got two BJP ministers dropped from the cabinet after the Kathua incident (rape and murder). Had I compromised with the principles, the Government would not have fallen apart,� Mufti said while addressing a party function for felicitating the DDC winners at the PDP headquarters here.

Mufti said BJP always used to criticize PDP calling it �weak�. She said BJPs policy of �coming down hard on stone pelters and Jamaat-e-Islami,� which they wanted her to execute, is being done now.

�They (BJP) said we should not return the bodies of slain militants and slap as many PSAs as possible. That is what is exactly happening today. Bodies of slain militants are not handed over back which is against humanity. Today the Government has done a crackdown on Jamaat-e-Islami. This is what the BJP wanted me to do to which I didn�t agree and as a result the Government fell apart,� Mufti said.

�PDP agenda is that instead of a war zone, J&K is made a bridge of peace between India and Pakistan which was initiated by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Even if BJP does more excesses and we face more hardships, the issue of J&K has to be resolved,� Mufti said.