Restoration of basic rights in JK our priority: Mehbooba

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said elections to Jammu and Kashmir assembly were not her priority as her party would like to focus on restoration of basic rights of the people of the union territory.
“Election is a distant issue. The priority should be restoration of basic rights of people which are being denied. People should have the freedom of movement, freedom of expression,” she told reporters here.
The former chief minister said if her party had resources, they would have fought in the Supreme Court the cases of those Kashmiri detainees who are lodged in various jails of the country post-2019.
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Asked about Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent remarks on Article 370, Mehbooba said she cannot engage on the importance of Article 370 with those “who have destroyed the Constitution of the country”.
“What do I tell them? The BJP is not respecting the constitution of the country. BJP has implemented their communal agenda. They don’t know what the significance of Article 370 is. It was a bridge between Jammu and Kashmir and the country which they have broken,” she alleged.