Muzaffar Baig said that Mehbooba Mufti must ask herself if she doing justice to the people of Kashmir or not.
Muzaffar Baig, senior PDP leader and former deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday suggested that if CM Mehbooba Mufti feels she cannot control the situation in Kashmir then she should step down.
"If she comes to a conclusion that she is not getting enough support and she cannot deliver on the promises that she made to the people, of course, the only course left for her will be to resign," Baig said in an interview to CNN-News18.
He also added that the alliance between PDP and BJP hasn't worked and has done nothing for PDP workers.
"If this alliance does not work for inner contradictions, because we are incompatible and what we have on paper is a paper of fraud and not a paper of good faith...if she comes to that conclusion and she does not get the support she must resign in honour," Baig said.
He added, "It is the worker at the ground level, the cadre that makes the party, they are losers any which way. We have not benefited them a bit, we have done nothing for our workers. We have not acted upon our common agenda of alliance. That is the real reason why we are in trouble today."
Baig criticised the all-party delegation visit to Kashmir as "high on symbolism and low on delivery". He also criticised the Modi government and said, "the Prime Minister talks Vikas for Kashmir, but his own partymen down the line speak a different language."
Baig said the Centre was being shown a different view of the situation in the state. "It's a case of a General who has a broader view of the situation while the soldier at the ground has a different (view). Take the case of Hurriyat Conference. Too little attention has been given to them," he said and added that if the Centre feels they are not the stakeholders, keep them on the side and talk to Pakistan directly.
He said a sense of "disillusion" was running deep into party cadre but even in these tough times, "I have not heard a single responsible person saying that Mehbooba should resign because she has failed."
"My personal view is that when there is a challenge, when there is a strife and uprising, you should never resign. That time you should show your strength both as a human being and as a functionary of an Indian state, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, you should show your mettle, if you have any mettle. But once there is peace and still the alliance does not work, either for ideological reasons or administrative reasons or lack of agreement on implementing the Agenda of Alliance, that will be the right time to dissolve the government both for BJP and PDP but never run away when it is a difficult time," he said.
(With PTI inputs)
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