Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday raised questions on the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as she claimed that the BJP was pitting Hindus against Muslims across the country.
Comparing the BJP’s rule to that of the British empire and taking pot-shots at the BJP-ruled states, Mufti claimed that all these states were competing against each other when it came to harassing Muslim citizens.
“Muslims are being provoked to react so that these people get a chance to execute another episode like that in Gujarat or UP. The British pitted Hindus against Muslims, today BJP is doing it. PM is watching silently. His party thinks it means what they’re doing is right,” Mufti was quoted as saying to reporters by news agency ANI.
“Attempts are being made to turn the country into Gujarat model, UP model, Assam model, MP model – whatever you want to call it. CMs are competing against each other that who can hassle Muslims the most. So, issues of temples and mosques are being raised,” Mufti added.
The former CM’s statement comes in the wake of the recent cases of communal riots that ensued across the country following Ram Navami while also taking an apparent dig at the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s controversial statement demanding that “the word Madrasa should cease to exist”.
Addressing a media meet organised by RSS-linked weeklies Panchjanya and Organiser, Sarma said, “Madrassa, the word itself, should cease to exist. Till this madrassa will be in mind, children can never become a doctor or an engineer.”
“If you ask a child while admitting him to a madrassa…no children would agree. Children are admitted to madrassa by violating their human rights,” he further added.
