Says 'during her tenure as CM in 2016, Jamia was sealed for 3 months'
Srinagar, January 01 (KNO) : Hurriyat Conference (M) spokesman on Tuesday said that the phone call of PDP president Mehbooba Mufti to amalgam chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq condemning the Jamia incident which she is broadcasting in media for obvious reasons, is ‘quiet ironical’ as it was during her tenure as CM that the mosque was most barred to people for offering of Friday prayers.
“In 2016 it was locked down for three months , in 2017 for the first time even Juma tul Vida congregation during Ramadan was not allowed and in 2018 for 16 Friday’s prayers were barred in the mosque! On all these days Mirwaiz was either put under house arrest or in jail as in 2016,” spokesman said in a statement issued to KNO.
Spokesman said if Mehbooba during her tenure as CM had the same feelings towards Jamia Masjid which she calls “the landmark and most important religious and social institution of Kashmir “at whose desecration she is “outraged” today, and had