Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said the central government has crushed mainstream political parties in Jammu and Kashmir, sadly, these parties have become a sacrificial goat and everyone is blaming them. Despite all this, the PDP leader said he was ready to wage a long and difficult political battle for the restoration of Article 370 of the constitution, which had been unlawfully removed.

“Sadly, the mainstream has become a victim and everybody is blaming him,” Mehbooba said. It is true that we have spent our entire political life fighting against the allegations of being pro-Pakistan and anti-India and anti-Kashmir.

In an interview with the PTP, Mehbooba stressed that the PDP and six other mainstream parties forming the Guptakar Coalition have decided to fight only to restore the former status of the former state by democratic and peaceful means, but the Government of India is still suppressing us and showing offensive voices such as crime.

The PDP leader was asked if any government in India would overturn Parliament’s decision to repeal Article 370 on August 5, 2019, a decision that was widely welcomed across the country. He said, nothing is a rocky line.

Mehbooba said if the parliamentary decision was final, millions would not have taken to the streets against laws such as the CAA or farm bills. Whatever is taken away from us in an unconstitutional way will have to be reversed, but it will be a long and difficult political battle, ”he said.

The former chief minister said that the decision to repeal Article 370 of the Gupkar Alliance (PAGD) victory in 112 out of 280 seats in the recent District Development Council (DDC) election has been publicly denied. Has given. “The DDC elections were suddenly presented as a challenge for us and we were not given equal opportunities,” he said. We have contested and contested unitedly to prevent the BJP and its pseudo-parties from finding any democratic space and weakening our people.

Mehbooba said, but the BJP raised the issue of Article 370 of the election and held a referendum. So the people together voted for our alliance and made it clear that they would reject the August 5, 2019 unlawful decision. He said the public was completely shocked and cheated by the decision to repeal Article 370 and divide the former state.

The PDP president said the decision has further exacerbated the separation of the people of Jammu and Kashmir from the country and further complicated the Kashmir issue. The next way is to negotiate and negotiate with all parties and discuss various options for relief without compromising the sovereignty of the country and at the same time fulfilling the aspirations of the people, he said.

Asked about the alliance with the BJP of the PDP to form a government in the former state, Mehbooba said, “My father (Mufti Mohammed Saeed) had tried to negotiate with the BJP, trying to build a broad based coalition. . He said he was not disappointed with the BJP’s decision to break the alliance in 2018.