Opposition National Conference today said Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his PDP stood completely exposed by Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister had promised 50 acres for purpose of composite townships for Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley.
"This statement by Singh now in the Lok Sabha has also proven beyond a doubt that J-K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had lied during his speech in the Legislative Assembly while denying that he had promised to allocate land for segregated, composite townships," NC spokesman Junaid Mattu said in a statement here.
"Not only does constitute a cognisable offence but it is extremely tragic that an elected chief minister brazenly lied in the sacred Legislative Assembly," Mattu said.
Lashing out at the chief minister and the PDP-BJP government in the state, Mattu said Sayeed's chronic habit of saying one thing in Delhi and another in Srinagar had already wreaked havoc with the state in 2008 when his forest minister Qazi Mohammad Afzal had, at his behest, signed off hundreds of kanals of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board.
Replying to a two-day debate on the demand for grants of the Home Ministry, Singh yesterday stated in the Lok Sabha that Sayeed "has promised to earmark 50 acres of land as a first instalment for this purpose".
The NC spokesman said this particular statement made in the Lok Sabha by the Union Home Minister had proven the apprehensions voiced by NC true that the chief minister had lied in his speech in the Assembly after widespread outrage in the state about the PDP-BJP government's plan to create segregated, separate composite townships in the Valley for displaced Pandits.
"Mufti Sahab went to Modi Ji's darbaar in New Delhi while he was lobbying for a cabinet berth in the Central government for Mehbooba Mufti and during that trip promised the Home Minister that he would allocate land for setting up segregated composite townships for Kashmiri Pandits.
"This could have been another blank cheque in a series of blank cheques that Mufti Sayeed has given to BJP and RSS to first make himself the chief minister for six years and then to seek Mehbooba Mufti's political accommodation in New Delhi," the spokesman alleged.
