Mehbooba snubs PM & CM, won't attend meeting
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday announced she will not attend the all-party meeting called by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar to discuss the political crisis in Jammu and Kashmir and has urged the Prime Minister to “excuse” her.
“I am very thankful to the PM for calling me yesterday (Saturday). I have told PM that please excuse us from this meeting till something worthwhile is done from the highest level. I told this to Home Minister also who has also called yesterday,” said Mehbooba.
"It was very kind of the Prime Minister to call me. I have deep regard for the PM. He advised us to attend the meeting. But it was painful to convey my inability to attend the meeting," she said at a press. Mehbooba claimed the Jammu and Kashmir government had lost credibility among the state's people and wanted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to step in and resolve the crisis.
The situation in the Kashmir Valley was "so bad that nothing at the level of the state government, that has been discredited, will help... unless there is a bigger initiative which will be taken seriously by the people who are caught in a prison like situation".
"I have requested the prime minister to intervene and put forward four points," she said, adding media curbs in the Valley should be lifted, the Army should be recalled, and the crackdown launched by the state government should be put to an end.
She alleged that the Omar Abdullah government was trying to hide its "failures" by convening such a meeting after taking all the decisions that "he shouldn't have taken".
"They have used excessive force to suppress the anger. And he projects himself like the only nationalist (in Kashmir)."
The PDP chief said the meeting was a "damage control exercise" aimed to hoodwink the international community.
Abdullah has called an all-party meeting on Monday to discuss the volatile situation in the state where the Army was called in to stage marches in curfew-bound towns to restore law and order following violent protests over civilian killings in the valley.
Abdullah has said the meeting was called to "seek a common approach" to the problem in the state.
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