800 separatists, activists jailed ahead of PM rally: Sagar Rebuking Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “not communal at all”, opposition National Conference Wednesday said that it can be the CM’s personal view but not of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. “We want to make it clear that the impression which chief minister of the state is creating in India and in the world about Narendra Modi is not the voice of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. This voice is Mufti Sahib’s own voice to fulfil his personal political agenda,” NC General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar told media persons at the party Headquarters in Nawa-e-Subh here. Sagar said that the rising trend of intolerance in India and murderous assaults on minorities after the BJP came to power was even condemned by PDP legislators and their MP. “Ten MLAs and an MP of PDP have strongly condemned the attacks on minorities after beef ban row and rising intolerance unleashed by Sangh Parivaar. They in their statements have directly attacked BJP, with which they share alliance here. Doesn’t Mufti Sahib know this?” he said. “Mufti Sahib is protecting those people who are responsible for this rising intolerance. So, whatever he is saying in public about Modi is his own voice. He is defending the agenda of RSS and BJP. It is a fact that this is not the voice of those voters who voted PDP to power to keep BJP and RSS away,” he said. Sagar said that Jammu and Kashmir is a Muslim majority state and hence it won’t tolerate or praise those people which are against them. “People of India should not be misled that our Muslim majority state supports the BJP and their communal agenda which the Chief Minister is giving an impression of. The clean chit to Modi by Mufti should not be read that it is the voice of Kashmiris,” he said. He said that whole India is against the ideology of RSS and BJP. “Mufti has taken a complete U-turn…we are surprised by this,” he said. Over the arrests and jailing of separatists and youth before the PM’s rally, Sagar asked where the ‘battle of idea’ slogan was now. “First time in the history of Srinagar, around 800 people associated with separatist groups are in jails. By creating graveyard-like silence in Kashmir, Mufti Sahib wants to show that he successfully and peacefully organised the rally of Prime Minister. What show is this Mufti Sahib?” he said. He said that the people who would attend Modi’s rally would not be people of Kashmir. “Those who will attend the rally will be anganwadi workers, dailywagers who have been without salaries for many months,” he said. On the reported package to be announced by Modi, Sagar said that many packages from the time of Rajiv Gandhi to Manmohan Singh have been announced. “To a great extent packages have only been announced by India and never granted. And if granted, they have been spent on central projects like railways, tunnels and highways. Such funds are a share of the states,” he said. “Packages don’t work in Kashmir. Kashmir is a political issue and it needs political packages,” he said. KNS