Two PDP Leaders Hit Out at Mehbooba, Accusing Her of Nepotism

After the PDP-BJP coalition fell in J&K, this is the first public attack on Mehbooba Mufti by a senior party leader.

Influential Shia leader and former minister Imran Ansari on Monday, 2 July, hit out at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, accusing her of nepotism.

"Mehbooba Mufti not only failed the PDP as a party but also dashed the dreams of her father, late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, that he had envisaged," Imran told PTI.

He accused Mehbooba of nepotism in the party as well as in the PDP-BJP coalition government she headed.

“It had become a family show which was run by brothers, uncles and other relatives. The Peoples Democratic Party has become Family Democratic Party,” he said in an apparent reference to the induction of Tasaduq Mufti, a political newbie, as cabinet minister earlier this year and a key position going to Sartaj Madni, Mehbooba’s uncle, in the party.