‘Badi dair kar di mehrbaan aate aate’: Mehbooba Mufti reacts to LK Advani’s blog

Srinagar, Apr 04 (PTK): Reacting to BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani’s blog titled ‘Nation First, Party Next, Self Last’, PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti said that the former should have spoken in the last five years.

Taking to Twitter, Mufti said, “BJP Patriarch questioning current brass for terming entire opposition as anti national is surprising. Not a word was uttered since 2014. Instead its finally said when BJPs tenure at Centre is almost over. Wish he had spoken up all these years. Badi dair kar di mehrbaan aate aate.”

BJP Patriarch questioning current brass for terming entire opposition as anti national is surprising. Not a word was uttered since 2014 . Instead its finally said when BJPs tenure at Centre is almost over. Wish he had spoken up all these years. Badi dair kar di mehrbaan aate aate

— Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) April 4, 2019

The 91-year-old BJP leader put out a blog post to mark the BJP’s foundation day on April 6. In his blog addressing the BJP workers, Advani wrote that the foundation day of the party “is an important occasion for all of us in the BJP to look back, look ahead and look within.”

In a blog post titled “Nation First, Party Next, Self Last”, Advani wrote that the BJP had “never regarded those who disagree with us politically as our enemies, but only as our adversaries” and that the BJP’s conception of Indian nationalism never regarded those who disagreed with it politically as “anti-national”

Advani’s comments come in the backdrop of a raging debate on nationalism with the Opposition repeatedly accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s top brass of using national security to seek votes and for not giving space for dissent. (PTK)