Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian politician Mehbooba Mufti.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Mehbooba Mufti is an Indian politician of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who served as the last Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir as a State, from 4 April 2016 to 19 June 2018. After the revocation of the special status (autonomy) of the state in August 2019, Mufti was detained without any charges at first and later under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act. She was released only in October 2020, after the Supreme Court of India quizzed the government about the length of her detention.
It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.
Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.
Kashmir aligned with India under certain conditions. Article 35A is part and parcel of this relationship.
The issue of Kashmir is both political and emotional in nature. Any pragmatic and lasting solution needs India and Pakistan sitting together on a table and discussing a solution that addresses the aspirations of Kashmiris and does not compromise the territorial integrity of either India or Pakistan.
Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.
Life and death are matters of the God. I can be killed even at home.
Article 370 is not a separatist slogan.
Democracy is about electoral competition.
Mufti sahab, apart from being my father, was one of the tallest leaders of the state and the country.
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.
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.
If any party fights the election on the basis of religion, it will not succeed.
I am a full-time political worker.
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.
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.
India is the world's largest democracy and everyone should have a right to voice their opinions.
Our party's agenda is not only to form a government, but also to facilitate a political process.
I'm not as large hearted as my father.
Jammu is part of the state but the people of Jammu do not face the same kind of difficulties that we face in Kashmir.
In fact, when I fought the 1996 election, being Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's daughter, it has its own plus and minus, so I told my father, 'please don't come for campaigning with me'.
Why is the government of India uncomfortable with Jamaat-e-Islami? It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly for Kashmiris.
My father worked for more than four decades in politics, in Indian democracy, and it took us 20 years to build a house for ourselves.
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.
Over last 30 odd years, Kashmir has seen many highs and lows when looked at from the perspective of the security scenario, infiltrations and militancy on the ground.
I strongly feel that there has to be a dialogue process internally as well as externally, with Pakistan.
You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.
But when I entered politics, I found that this was the space that could be used for making lives of people better.