New Delhi: Political leaders and the Vice President of India have condoled the death of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir who passed away today at AIIMS here after a prolong illness.
In a message, Vice President M. Hamid Ansari said Mufti Sayeed was an eminent statesman and a popular leader who made immense contribution to the progress and welfare of the state. The Vice President said Mufti Sayeed was a consensus builder and always placed the nation’s interest ahead of every other consideration.
Congress President, Sonia Gandhi has expressed shock and grief at the passing away of Mufti Sayeed. Extending her condolences to his wife, Ms. Mehbooba Mufti and other family members, Gandhi said that in his death, the State of J&K as indeed the entire Nation had lost a great leader. Recalling his long association with Congress Party, she said that Muftiji’s contribution as a humanist and to public life in various capacities will forever be remembered.
National Panthers Party leader Prof.Bhim Singh paid tributes to Mufti Sayeed, describing him as an undaunted nationalist leader from J&K who was the only Kashmiri Muslim leader who rose to the position of the Union Home Minister of India when V.P. Singh was the Prime Minister.
He recalled that Mufti Sayeed allotted him ticket to contest assembly elections in J&K when Mufti was the Pradesh President of Congress Party who served the state for over 20 years.
Prof.Bhim Singh said that Mufti sahib had written a political history of J&K with his courage and commitment to Indian nationalism by signing an Accord with RSS controlled BJP in J&K. He said that this was a calculated yet grave risk that Mufti sahib took to form government with BJP (RSS) in a Muslim majority state facing heavy knocks and pressure from all his friends and secular parties with whom Mufti sahib had lasting commitment. It was this Union which made him to suffer from a shock in the last week of the last month of 2014 in Srinagar.
The NPP held a condolence meeting at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi where Panthers Party office in exile has been functioning now.
Aam Adami Party leader and Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also expressed his shock over the death of Mufti Sayeed.
The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah, on behalf of the AMU fraternity, has expressed a deep sense of grief and loss on sad demise of Mufti Sayeed saying he was a distinguished alumnus of the AMU.
Mufti Sayeed attended the Aligarh Muslim University in 1950s and gained LLB and MA (Arabic) degrees during 1957-59.
Mufti Sayeed had always been concerned for protection of rights of the students of Jammu and Kashmir and worked for their betterment.
A politician of high values, he will always be remembered for his compassion and concern for marginalized people.
The Executive Council of the Aligarh Muslim University, in its meeting held today, condoled the death of Mufti Mohd. Sayeed.
I would really appreciate hearing brief answers from all the people, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, including our VP and CM of Delhi, to the cite, from the above post directly, viz., “A politician of high values, he will always be remembered for his compassion and concern for marginalized people.” Time for empty words, slogans, two-word “mantras” are not helping India, under Modi and/or his predecessors, from BJP/Congress. The 21st century India needs data that can be verified, validated by an independent third-party, like Internet, Google, Yahoo, US Department of Commerce, CIA Fact Book, the Economist (UK), and other sources like Library of Congress (Washington DC), and honest, aka, liberal socialists, with Hindu names, nut not Hindutva followers, who returned their awards, in protest of many present policy decisions, on which Mr. Modi kept quiet for too long. Even when he broke his silence, albeit very reluctantly, it was too little, too late, and obviously didn’t sound sincere at all. Stop