Kashmiri politician and Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday compared the current situation in India to war-torn Syria as she highlighted the “spate of violence”.
In an interview with India’s leading media out-let, India Today, she said, “people are taking up guns and killing each other” in India.
“You can see the amount of hatred they are spreading everywhere. Ordinary people are ready to take up guns to kill each other. This is something that is happening in Syria. There they kill people shouting Allahu Akbar, here we kill by saying Jai Shri Ram. What is the difference now,” she asked.
She also blamed Indian Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi for bringing India into a situation where “people with guns to kill each other.”
“The BJP wants to create Godse’s India. I think the INDIA alliance is fighting for the right cause and Rahul Gandhi will lead this fight against bigotry,” Mufti said.
She said the BJP is misusing government agen-cies to target Opposition leaders. On revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, she said that “normalcy in Kashmir is a myth” and “Jammu suffered” after the abrogation of Article 370.—KMS
