New Delhi: After the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister as well as President of People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti demanded immediate release of separatist leader Yasin Malik in a view of his failing health, the Congress party accused BJP and claimed that the former government which was formed by the BJP-PDP alliance was responsible for the turmoil in the state.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, "INC believes that the law must be upheld for every individual including Yasin Malik and that's a call which Government of India and our lawmakers need to take, not Mehbooba Mufti."
"The question also needs to be put to Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi as they are the former partners of PDP and who ran a PDP-BJP government together for years in Jammu Kashmir, pushing the state into turmoil and violence," he further added.
Recently, Mehbooba Mufti said that if something bad happened to Malik, "the outcome would be catastrophic".
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday led a protest march with party activists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district against the suspension of cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade and ban on Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI). Mehbooba demanded the revocation of the decision to suspend the cross-LoC trade and sought immediate release of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik from custody.
READ: JK: Stones hurled at Mehbooba's motorcade in Anantnag
