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PDP accuses ex-Governor of pushing J&K into communal fire
Published on Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:58 in 
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NOTHING WRONG: Mehbooba Mufti also defended the party's change of stand on the land transfer issue.
New Delhi The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday hit back at former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Lt Gen (retd) SK Sinha accusing him of pushing the state into a "communal fire" on the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) land transfer issue.
In a sharp reaction to Sinha's charge that PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed was "hand-in-glove" with communal and fundamentalist elements, party president Mehbooba Mufti said that Sinha had lived up to his reputation of running into controversies and "was able to serve his masters well by pushing the state in a communal fire".
Asked to comment on Sinha's allegation that PDP and particularly Sayeed had been in league with communal elements, she said, "If he (Sinha) is labelling our party as anti-national, then I will certainly like to understand his definition of nationalism".
Sayeed had foreseen the tension over the land transfer to SASB even before the state Cabinet passed it, his daughter said.
She defended the party's change of stand on the land transfer issue and said the proposal by two of its former ministers in this regard was sent in "good faith".
The proposal was like a "trap" in which two of our ministers fell, she said.
The PDP withdrew from ruling Congress-led coalition in the state protesting transfer of the land to the SASB.
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