{"id":19102,"date":"2026-05-06T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=19102"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:01:00","slug":"mehbooba-accuses-nc-of-politicizing-holy-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/mehbooba-accuses-nc-of-politicizing-holy-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehbooba accuses NC of politicizing holy Quran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Says party ignoring Waqf Bill and school closure issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Srinagar, May 06:<\/strong>\u00a0Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said the National Conference (NC) is \u201cdragging the holy Quran into politics\u201d while remaining silent on several key issues affecting people in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Srinagar, Mehbooba said the NC had lowered political discourse by invoking religious references in political rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Conference has fallen to this level. They have even involved the holy Quran in politics. They don\u2019t understand its greatness,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said if the party truly understood religious values, it would have raised its voice on key matters such as the Waqf legislation and educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they were aware, they would have spoken when the Waqf Bill was passed. They would have spoken when Siraj-ul-Uloom School was closed,\u201d Mufti said.<\/p>\n<p>The PDP chief further alleged that the NC has remained silent on surveillance of religious institutions and community structures. \u201cThey are silent when mosque committees, maulvis, and imams are being monitored,\u201d she said, adding that there was also \u201csystematic neglect of the Urdu language\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mufti raised concerns over alleged irregularities in government recruitment, claiming transparency was being bypassed. She said thousands of jobs are being outsourced to banks without any advertisement, and people are not even aware of them. &#8220;The recruitment processes were being conducted without public notification and proper procedure,&#8221; she alleged.<\/p>\n<p>On governance issues, the former CM criticised demolition drives and administrative action against drug-related cases, saying such steps were creating fear among people. \u201cToday, people\u2019s houses are being demolished in the name of drug peddlers. Earlier, houses of militant sympathisers were demolished. Employees are being removed from government jobs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She accused the ruling setup of diverting attention from governance failures. \u201cThey are watching a spectacle. To hide their failures, they should fight politically, blame us, but for God\u2019s sake, do not involve the holy Quran in politics,\u201d Mufti added<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says party ignoring Waqf Bill and school closure issues Srinagar, May 06:\u00a0Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said the National Conference (NC) is \u201cdragging the holy Quran into politics\u201d while remaining silent on several key issues affecting people in Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking to reporters in Srinagar, Mehbooba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19103,"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-19102","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\/19102","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=19102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19104,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19102\/revisions\/19104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}