For Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was difficult and compared it to drinking poison. Mufti alleged that she suffered the whole time , during the two years and two months of alliance.
She further said that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed agreed to join hands with BJP last time because it was a good alliance during Vajpayee’s reign.
The J&K former CM and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mufti made headlines earlier after making various statements favouring separatists and also accusing of BJP trying to break PDP. Mufti had alleged that her party MLAs were being “coerced and threatened” to leave the party with NIA raids.
Without naming BJP, Mufti accused BJP of horse-trading, saying several PDP MLAs had told her in person that “tremendous pressure” was being applied on them in order to wean them away from their party.
Mufti’s current statement on her party’s alliance reminded of Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy’s statement earlier this month wherein he expressed displeasure on his party’s alliance with the Congress. Kumaraswamy had said, “All of you are happy because your elder or younger brother has become the chief minister. But I am not happy. I am swallowing my own pain like poison, like Vishakantha (Lord Shiva, who drank poison to save the world).”
