Rehan Qayoom Mir
Srinagar, Apr 17: A day after former RAW Chief A S Dulat claimed that Dr Farooq Abdullah “privately’ supported the abrogation of Article 370, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Merhbooba Mufti on Thursday said she was not surprised by the revelations made by Dulat in his latest book.
Addressing a convention of PDP workers here, Mehbooba Mufti said, “Dulat’s revelations are nothing new for me. This father-son duo (Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah) went to meet them (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) on August 3 (2019). Farooq Sahib did not even go to Parliament (on August 5, 2019). He stayed back. So there is nothing surprising for me,” she said.
Mehbooba also claimed that in 2014, Omar Abdullah met Amit Shah for government formation in Jammu and Kashmir.
“He told Shah not to form a government with the PDP but to go with the National Conference and that too unconditionally,” she alleged.
She also claimed that one of the cornerstones of PDP’s alliance with the BJP from 2015 to 2018 was that Article 370 will not be touched.
“In those two years and 10 months, Article 370 remained untouched,” she said.
