PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday attacked the Centre over the abrogation of Article 370, saying the suppression of people’s voices had created a pressure cooker-like situation in J&K.

She said a time would come when the Centre would ask the people “with folded hands” what more did they want besides restoration of the special status of the erstwhile state.

“They (Centre) have suppressed people’s voices and are not allowing them to talk. It is like a pressure cooker... they have created such an atmosphere. But when the pressure cooker explodes it burns down the whole house,” Mufti said at her first public function in Jammu after her release from detention.

Mufti asserted that the PDP would not be a mute spectator to the prevailing situation and not sit silent until Article 370 was restored.

“A time will come when the government in New Delhi will ask with folded hands (to the people of Kashmir) what more do you want besides restoration of special status... Mark my words,” she said in her address to PDP workers at the party headquarters here.

Stressing that the BJP was “not going to rule forever”, Mufti said the Centre committed a blunder by scrapping Article 370 and “misused” the Constitution. — PTI

Courtesy: Daily Tribune: 6th November 2020