PDP wants peace with dignity: Mehbooba Mufti

Srinagar, Aug 21: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti today said that her party wants peace with dignity and not like the silence of graveyards.

She was addressing a party function here. Mehbooba stated that Jammu and Kashmir is going through a "difficult phase" for the last five years after the abrogation of Article 370. During the function former Rajouri MLA Chaudhary Qamar Hussain rejoined the party.

Hussain and five other PDP leaders were expelled by the party in 2020 for meeting the Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor and a delegation of foreign envoys in Srinagar. Hussain had then joined the Apni Party.

"I welcome Chaudhary to the party. I am happy that he has come back to the party," Mehbooba said.She said not just the PDP but the whole of Jammu and Kashmir has been going through a "difficult phase" for the last five years.

"The situation is such that” we cannot raise our voice, there is fear everywhere.” “In such a scenario, when new people join us and strengthen our party, it strengthens the voice of the people of J&K," the PDP President said.

Those present at the function Abdul Ahmed Choudhary , A R Quareshi and Arif Laigaroo. At a separate function, the PDP also welcomed Zaffar Ahmad Mir from Lasjan Srinagar and Javid Iqbal Ganie from Palhalan Pattan to the party.