{"id":1402,"date":"2025-10-16T20:29:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:29:59","slug":"mehbooba-links-rs-support-to-passage-of-pdp-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/mehbooba-links-rs-support-to-passage-of-pdp-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehbooba links RS support to passage of PDP bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rehan Qayoom Mir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar, Oct 16:\u00a0<\/strong>Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) backing in Rajya Sabha elections would depend on the National Conference led-government\u2019s stance toward key bills introduced by her party.<\/p>\n<p>She also accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, of \u201cnormalising\u201d the abnormal governance practices that, she said, took root during the Lt Governor\u2019s rule in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Srinagar, Mehbooba said that during the Lt Governor\u2019s rule, several irregularities took place, including the arbitrary sacking of government employees, yet no one spoke out against it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever was happening at that time was completely abnormal. When Omar Abdullah became Chief Minister, he normalised it all and neither did he speak against it, nor did he resist,\u201d Mehbooba said.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP Chief further alleged that Omar Abdullah, who once promised legal aid for thousands of jailed youth in his election manifesto, has now gone silent on such commitments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe used to talk about Article 370, but today he doesn\u2019t even mention it,\u201d Mehbooba said. \u201cInstitutions are being targeted \u2014 Falah-e-Aam Trust schools have been taken over by the administration with the signature of Omar Sahib\u2019s own minister and even the open merit category is being rationalised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, Mehbooba revealed that National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah had reached out to her, seeking the PDP\u2019s support. \u201cFarooq Sahib called me and said they are in need of our support. I told him that our senior leadership will sit together and decide on it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mehbooba also shared that the PDP\u2019s backing would depend on the government\u2019s stance toward key bills introduced by her party. \u201cI told him there are a few bills we had brought during the previous Assembly session \u2014 such as the regularisation of poor people living on \u2018Kahcharai land (pasture)\u2019 and the daily wagers\u2019 bill. If at least one or two of those are passed this time, we will consider supporting them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth mentioning, the Land Rights Bill, introduced by the PDP, aims to safeguard the ownership rights of locals residing on state and Kahcharai lands for decades, seeking to prevent arbitrary evictions and ensure legal tenure for poor and landless families.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the Regularisation of Daily Wagers Bill seeks to provide job security and permanent status to thousands of temporary, contractual, and daily wage workers serving in various government departments across Jammu and Kashmir\u2014<strong>(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rehan Qayoom Mir Srinagar, Oct 16:\u00a0Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) backing in Rajya Sabha elections would depend on the National Conference led-government\u2019s stance toward key bills introduced by her party. She also accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, of \u201cnormalising\u201d the abnormal governance practices that, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}