KASHMIR LIFE (KL): You independently contested the District Development Council elections? Are you still with PDP?
SAFEENA BEIGH (SF): I haven’t formally resigned as Peoples Democratic Party’s Women Wing President but I am not part of the party anymore. My husband (Muzaffar Hussain Beigh) has parted ways with the party, how can I continue? I respect Mehbooba Mufti; she will always be my elder sister. We have no personal differences but our political paths are different now. I don’t believe in hypocrisy. I believe in merit and she knows I have always been outspoken.
KL: Along with you a lot of people left the PDP. Who is responsible for this?
SF: If there are weaknesses within a family, how can one blame someone else? There were weaknesses in PDP and that is why people left it. Altaf Bukhari was a businessman and he was given a mandate by the party. What was his contribution? The people who had worked for the party for decades, people who left everything for the party were sidelined. I ask Mehbooba Ji to introspect someday for the sake of God and ask her conscience whether injustice was committed towards stalwarts of PDP who were close to Mufti (Sayeed) Sahab. You (Mehbooba Mufti) empowered such people who didn’t deserve it. They hadn’t built PDP. It was the other way round.
KL: Is that what made you leave the party?
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