Jammu: The former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti chief Mehbooba Mufti visited the Navagraha temple in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district and offered prayers to a ‘shivling’ there with the BJP calling the move a “political gimmick” saying it won’t change her past.
The video of Mufti visiting the temple earlier on Tuesday to pay her obeisance has gone viral on social media.
Om Namah #Shivay, Shiv hi satya hai.@MehboobaMufti at Navgreh Mandir, #poonch, #Jammu. #mehboobamufti #omnamahshivaya #JammuAndKashmir pic.twitter.com/ziYLKG9yuz
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The PDP chief also offered flowers to the statue of Bani Yashpal Sharma in the temple premises.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister’s visit to the temple, however, did not go down well with the PDP’s former alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir wing dismissed the PDP supremo’s temple visit as a political gimmick and said it won’t change her past.
“In 2008, Mehbooba Mufti and her party opposed allotment of land to Shri Amarnath Ji shrine board. Her party didn’t allow the temporary transfer of land to the shrine board for construction of hutments for pilgrims,” said BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit spokesperson Ranbir Singh Pathania.
“Her visit to the temple is just plain drama and gimmick which won’t yield any results. If political gimmicks could have brought changes, then Jammu and Kashmir would have been an orchard of prosperity today,” he added.
This comes days after the PDP supremo lashed out at the BJP for bulldozing houses and businesses of the poor in Jammu and Kashmir.
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