Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti
Shiv Sena (UBT) J&K unit chief Manish Sahni on Monday demanded a public apology from PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti for terming India “lynchistan” over the killing of a labourer from Bengal in Odisha’s Sambalpur and a tribal MBA student in Uttarakhand.“Mehbooba has no right to abuse the country,” Sahni said, questioning her silence on the carnage of Hindus in Bangladesh and the continued persecution of Hindus and other minorities in Pakistan.The PDP chief on Sunday alleged that the India of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru had been turned into a “lynchistan”.Sahni said abusing one’s own country because of a handful of mischievous elements is like biting the hand that feeds you. He also reminded Mehbooba of the PDP’s silence when Islamists forced the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s.“It is no secret which community was involved in the white-collar terrorist module that was exposed after the Delhi bomb blast,” Sahni said, alluding to the Nov 10 fidayeen attack by Pulwama-based doctor Umar Mohammed near Red Fort.He further reminded Mehbooba that this is the same country which, on Dec 8, 1989, released five dangerous terrorists in exchange for the release of her sister, Rubiya Saeed, when her father, Mufti Mohammad Saeed, was Union home minister.
