Srinagar 14 October: Just hours after her release, PDP President Mehbooba Mufti , in an audio message, said that the people will have to continue struggling for the resolution of Kashmir issue and whatever was snatched by Delhi on August 5, 2019 will have to be taken back.
In more than a minute long audio message, she said, “I have become free today after more than a year. During this time the black decision of August 5, 2019, black day, would always pain my heart and soul. And I realise that the people of J&K would have the same feeling. Nobody among us can forget the day’s robbery and humiliation”.
“Now we all will have to reiterate that whatever Delhi Darbar, unconstitutionally and undemocratically, snatched away from us will have to be taken back,” she said.
Mehbooba Mufti is the last of J&K’s mainstream political leaders to have been set free after the constitutional changes split the region into two Union territories. She was released on Tuesday evening, over 14 months after she was detained following the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status on August 5, 2019.
Former CM also said, “Also we will have to carry on our struggle for the resolution of the Kashmir issue for which thousands gave their lives. I agree this path is not easy but I am hopeful that our resolve will help us in this,” she said.
Through the audio message, she also demanded the release of all those who have been jailed like her.
“Now that I have been released I also demand the release of the people of Jammu and Kashmir who have been jailed in different prisons of the country,” she said.
As Mufti took control of her twitter handle, she continued to get congratulatory messages.
MKStalin, president of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), tweeted: “I’m pleased to hear that @MehboobaMufti has been released from detention after 14 months. I urge the Govt to release all other political detainees as well. The democratic processes, which have been suspended during this time, must also be reinstated”.
Former J&K chief minister and senior congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad tweeted: “Thank God at last @MehboobaMufti has been released after more than15 months. This detention like that of Farooq sahib&@OmarAbdullah was unique one in our country, where the govt. ordered detention themselves don’t know reason and crime committed by these 3 leaders. Jai ho democracy ki”.
National Conference vice-president and former J&K CM Omar Abdullah also welcomed her release. “I’m pleased to hear that @MehboobaMufti Sahiba has been released after more than a year in detention. Her continued detention was a travesty & was against the basic tenets of democracy. Welcome out Mehbooba,”he tweeted.
