Where was Mufti during floods: NC
National Conference Sunday sought an answer from opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) on the whereabouts of its patron and party’s Chief Ministerial candidate, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed during the unprecedented floods that submerged most parts of Srinagar and other parts of the Valley in September.
In a statement NC spokesman Junaid Azim Mattu claimed that not only was PDP’s Chief Ministerial candidate absconding during the entire ordeal that Kashmir went through but PDP’s Members of Parliament were also conveniently missing from the scene.
“Is it not a fact that Mufti Sayeed arrived on one plane at Srinagar airport and left on the very next flight even when the State Government on the instructions of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had kept a helicopter available for the PDP patron to visit the flood-affected areas of the State? Today, PDP’s pathological liars are out playing politics over a natural calamity by trying to exploit the miseries of the victims to score political brownie points. Where was PDP when Kashmir witnessed inarguably its worst natural disaster in recent contemporary history? The party wants the same person to be a Chief Minister of this State who couldn’t have it in him to visit even one flood-affected area despite being provided the facility to do so,” he said.
“Similarly PDP should not forget that Afzal Guru was indicted, convicted and sentenced during the tenure of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the Chief Minister of J&K. At that time PDP was in a coalition with Congress in the State and it was Congress that was in power at the center. Why didn’t Mufti raise a voice against this issue then when it would have mattered? Why didn’t PDP oppose the death sentence to Afzal Guru while PDP was in power in J&K? These are questions that remain not only unanswered by PDP but are also unanswerable,” the NC Spokesman said while lashing out at PDP for its hypocrisy and its efforts to occlude its own involvement in some of the biggest injustices against the people of Jammu and Kashmir.