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Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and PDP president has reacted strongly to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s remarks that statements of mainstream parties in Kashmir create “separatist psyche” and were “not acceptable to new India”.
“Unacceptable is a new India where those who kill and lynch in the name of religion are feted and garlanded. If standing up for my people makes me a separatist and anti-national, then its a badge I will wear with honour,” she said in a tweet.
Unacceptable is a new India where those who kill and lynch in the name of religion are feted and garlanded. If standing up for my people makes me a separatist and anti national then its a badge I will wear with honour. https://t.co/7KJAHfrOe5
— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) April 3, 2019
Further , She had word or two for the BJP and said that if the BJP abrogates the special status given to Jammu and Kashmir, the state would treat it as the deadline to break its accession with India.
