Mayawati hits out at Congress, other parties for visiting Jammu and Kashmir
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Mayawati, who had backed the Centre's move to abrogate Article 370, on Monday criticised the Congress and other opposition parties for trying to visit Jammu and Kashmir which no longer enjoys any special status.
She tweeted, "It will take time for the situation in Jammu and Kashmir to get normalised after the abrogation of Article 370. So in this scenario it would be better to wait for some more time. Even the court has said that.
"But is the visit to Jammu and Kashmir by the Congress and other opposition parties without permission not an attempt to give a scope to the Centre and the Governor to play politics? They should have thought about it more," the BSP supremo added.
However, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was a part of the opposition delegation, visited after Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik had invited him to visit the valley and get a sense of the ground reality.
Rahul, of course, was asked by Malik to visit alone which didn't happen.
The Congress leader along with a battery of opposition leaders went to Srinagar on Saturday days after the Centre scrapped Articles 370 and 35A to withdraw Jammu and Kashmir's special status.
All the opposition leaders- belonging to parties like Congress, CPI-M, CPI, Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, DMK, Nationalist Congress Party- were sent back from the Srinagar Airport.
In a video shared on Twitter, Rahul, standing beside his party colleague Ghulam Nabi Azad, was seen asking an official why they were not allowed to visit the valley if the situation is normal as claimed by the government.
Several Jammu and Kashmir leaders including former Chief Ministers- Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti- have still been kept under detention.
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