Words matter. These are the best Mehbooba Mufti Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.
Mufti sahab, apart from being my father, was one of the tallest leaders of the state and the country.
Life and death are matters of the God. I can be killed even at home.
But when I entered politics, I found that this was the space that could be used for making lives of people better.
Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn’t anyway change things on the ground.
It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.
Why is the government of India uncomfortable with Jamaat-e-Islami? It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly for Kashmiris.
My father would always say Kashmiris have made so much sacrifice to achieve something more, but we have a constitution, special status and a flag, and our foremost duty is to protect what we have.
Our party’s agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.
India is the world’s largest democracy and everyone should have a right to voice their opinions.
I strongly feel that there has to be a dialogue process internally as well as externally, with Pakistan.
I am a full-time political worker.
Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.
If any party fights the election on the basis of religion, it will not succeed.
My father was not in power when I started my political career, or when I fought my first election in 1996. Starting like any ordinary person, I reached out to people everywhere.
Democracy is about electoral competition.
You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.
Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.
People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.
You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I’m sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can’t do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.
Article 370 is not a separatist slogan.
Jammu is part of the state but the people of Jammu do not face the same kind of difficulties that we face in Kashmir.
