Surprised by priorities of media’s prime time debates: Mehbooba

By PTI

SRINAGAR: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday hit out on the media, saying as an alternative of overlaying actual issues, it was losing time by discussing non-issues such because the Jammu and Kashmir administration issuing an eviction discover to her.

The administration had earlier this week issued an eviction discover to the previous Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, saying she was not entitled to make use of the bungalow on the high-security Gupkar Road.

“The media is wasting time in discussing non-issues like Mehboba Mufti vacating the house. Ideally, they should focus on real issues and problems faced by people (of Jammu and Kashmir) but they are not doing that,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief advised reporters after paying obeisance at her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s grave in Anantnag district.

Mehbooba additionally mentioned that seizing of passport, questioning by the Enforcement Directorate or eviction notices don’t shock her.

“If anything surprises me, it is the priorities of (the visual) media,” she mentioned.

“A teenager was killed while he was in police custody. He was just an accused and nothing had been proved against him. Instead of holding prime time debates on the circumstances in which this 19-year-old life was snuffed out, media is holding debate on eviction notice to Mehbooba Mufti,” the PDP chief mentioned.

“The discussion should have centred on how this youth could be killed while he was in police custody,” she added.

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On if she would vacate the Fair View bungalow, Mehbooba mentioned if the federal government has no concern for safety, “I will vacate the house”.

“What is the big deal?” she requested.

Several political events, together with the PDP and the National Conference (NC), on Wednesday, had referred to as for a probe into the killing of an arrested “hybrid Lashkar-e-Toiba militant” throughout an anti-militancy operation in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Imran Bashir Ganaie was arrested for his alleged involvement within the killing of two labourers at Harmain in district within the early hours of Tuesday.

He was killed early on Wednesday in firing by militants when police launched an anti-terror operation in Shopian’s Naugam space, in response to the Kashmir Zone police.

In 2020, NC chief and former chief minister Omar Abdullah vacated the official bungalow which was allotted to him on safety grounds in 2002 when he was a Lok Sabha member.

His son Omar Abdullah had vacated the bungalow because the administration did away with the entitlement of former chief ministers to official lodging.

SRINAGAR: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday hit out on the media, saying as an alternative of overlaying actual issues, it was losing time by discussing non-issues such because the Jammu and Kashmir administration issuing an eviction discover to her.

The administration had earlier this week issued an eviction discover to the previous Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, saying she was not entitled to make use of the bungalow on the high-security Gupkar Road.

“The media is wasting time in discussing non-issues like Mehboba Mufti vacating the house. Ideally, they should focus on real issues and problems faced by people (of Jammu and Kashmir) but they are not doing that,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief advised reporters after paying obeisance at her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s grave in Anantnag district.

Mehbooba additionally mentioned that seizing of passport, questioning by the Enforcement Directorate or eviction notices don’t shock her.

“If anything surprises me, it is the priorities of (the visual) media,” she mentioned.

“A teenager was killed while he was in police custody. He was just an accused and nothing had been proved against him. Instead of holding prime time debates on the circumstances in which this 19-year-old life was snuffed out, media is holding debate on eviction notice to Mehbooba Mufti,” the PDP chief mentioned.

“The discussion should have centred on how this youth could be killed while he was in police custody,” she added.

ALSO READ | Mehbooba Mufti calls for probe into militant’s loss of life in Shopian

On if she would vacate the Fair View bungalow, Mehbooba mentioned if the federal government has no concern for safety, “I will vacate the house”.

“What is the big deal?” she requested.

Several political events, together with the PDP and the National Conference (NC), on Wednesday, had referred to as for a probe into the killing of an arrested “hybrid Lashkar-e-Toiba militant” throughout an anti-militancy operation in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Imran Bashir Ganaie was arrested for his alleged involvement within the killing of two labourers at Harmain in district within the early hours of Tuesday.

He was killed early on Wednesday in firing by militants when police launched an anti-terror operation in Shopian’s Naugam space, in response to the Kashmir Zone police.

In 2020, NC chief and former chief minister Omar Abdullah vacated the official bungalow which was allotted to him on safety grounds in 2002 when he was a Lok Sabha member.

His son Omar Abdullah had vacated the bungalow because the administration did away with the entitlement of former chief ministers to official lodging.