Srinagar, Aug 21: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has termed the recent statement of DPAP Chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Indian Muslims as “highly regrettable” and said it echoes the ideology and narrative of RSS-BJP against the Muslims of the country.
Azad recently said that all the Muslims in India were essentially Hindus who had converted to Islam only some time back. Mufti in a statement said Azad’s remarks were “dangerous and divisive” and that they “resemble the language of the RSS, BJP and Janasangh”.
“Such remarks manifest in the atrocities and violence against Muslims in the country as evidenced by the recent incident in Uttar Pradesh where the parents of a Muslim boy who had married a Hindu girl were lynched,” Mehbooba said.
The PDP said that Muslims in India are “unsafe” because of this mindset. She said the government is supposed to build houses, but the BJP government is “busy demolishing them selectively, especially those belonging to Muslims”.
