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PM Narendra Modi with Union MoS for Science & Expertise Jitendra Singh and J&Ok Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha through the ‘Viksit Bharat, Viksit Jammu & Kashmir’ programme, in Srinagar on 7 March 2024. (PTI picture)
A Padma Shri awardee, Muzaffar Beig was accompanied by his spouse and Baramulla District Improvement Council (DDC) chairperson Safeena Beig
Former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Muzaffar Beig, who was amongst a number of non-BJP leaders invited to Narendra Modi’s rally right here, left the venue in a huff even earlier than the Prime Minister’s arrival as ”no separate (sitting) association” had been made for Padma awardees like him. A Padma Shri awardee, Muzaffar Beig was accompanied by his spouse and Baramulla District Improvement Council (DDC) chairperson Safeena Beig.
After reaching the Bakshi stadium right here, the couple have been taken to a sitting space meant for BJP leaders and others. Nonetheless, they left minutes later. Chatting with reporters, Safeena Beig mentioned it was unlucky that there was no separate seating association for Padma awardees.
”Beig is a Padma awardee and got here right here in that capability. Nevertheless it was very unlucky that there was no separate association for such awardees,” she mentioned. ”We had come right here to welcome our prime minister and thank him. I had come right here as (DDC) chairperson. That is an official perform and we needed to be a part of it,” she mentioned.
Safeena Beig mentioned she would take up the matter with the federal government. Requested about hypothesis that Muzaffar Beig would possibly be part of the BJP, she mentioned politicians from totally different events have been current on the rally venue and it doesn’t imply all of them are becoming a member of the BJP.
”This isn’t a BJP perform,” she mentioned. Apni Get together chief and former Srinagar mayor Junaid Azim Mattu, Nationwide Convention chief Pervez Qadri and Folks’s Convention chief Raja Ajaz Ali have been among the many politicians who attended Modi’s rally.
The rally, the primary by a main minister on the Bakshi stadium, was held amidst stringent safety preparations. Town, south of Jhelum, was transformed right into a fortress with solely individuals having legitimate passes allowed to proceed in direction of the venue. This was Modi’s first go to to Kashmir because the Centre abrogated the particular standing given to the erstwhile state and divided it into two Union territories — Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh — on August 5, 2019.
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