Centre is 'Leaving No Scope for Democracy' in Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti
3 years, 3 months ago

Centre is 'Leaving No Scope for Democracy' in Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti

The Quint  

In a wide-ranging interview to author and columnist David Devadas, the former Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and president of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti, said Kashmiris feel suffocated, but she also spoke of the inevitability of reconciliation by the Centre. “Dum ghut gaya hai,” says former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, in what she describes as “an open-air prison”. Acknowledging that there has been repression in the past, too, she says, “I haven’t seen it so bad” that “people are scared even within the four walls of their house”. Holding that one “can’t hold people under the gun for a long time”, she speaks of a lot of resultant anger: “People feel humiliated and hurt” for “they have gone all out to disempower us”.

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