PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said that the media was wasting its time by covering non-issues such as the Jammu and Kashmir administration issuing an eviction notice to her.
Speaking to reporters after paying obeisance at her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s grave in Anantnag district, she said that the media should focus on real problems faced by the people of the Valley.
“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) leader said.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was earlier this week issued an eviction notice by the administration. Mufti said she was not authorised to stay in the bungalow on the high security Gupkar Road.
She further said that seizing of passport, questioning by the Enforcement Directorate or eviction notices do not surprise her. “If anything surprises me, it is the priorities of (the visual) media,” she said.
Citing the alleged killing of a teenager in police custody, Mufti said that instead of holding prime-time debates on the incident, media is covering issues like eviction notice to her.
“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 leader said.
“The discussion should have centred on how this youth could be killed while he was in police custody,” she added.
Imran Bashir Ganaie, a “hybrid” Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, who was arrested after the killing of two labourers at Harmain in district on Tuesday, was killed on Wednesday during an anti-terrorist operation in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Several political parties, including the PDP and the National Conference (NC), have called for a probe into the killing of Ganaie.
