Bangalore, May 12: Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has said that the current state of affairs in Sri Lanka is a warning to India. He tweeted yesterday that Sri Lanka’s economic and political crisis may be a lesson for India.
“There has been an atmosphere of fear and communal hysteria in India since 2014,” he said.
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Mufabi tweeted on Wednesday morning, “What is happening in Sri Lanka is an alarm bell. The communal fever and imagined fears in India have erupted in India since 2014.
What should happen in Sri Lanka is a wake up call. Since 2014, India is being whipped into a communal frenzy & imagined fears. It is the same path of treading hyper nationalism & religious majoritarianism. Disrupting social cohesion & economic security at all costs. https://t.co/c0WZUHW1DH
– Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) May 11, 2022
A Twitter account from The Hindu tweeted, “Strong nationalism and pluralist polarization are not sustained. People do not care when they are in a state of economic hardship. In response, Mehbooba Mufti expressed his views.
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The critical situation in Sri Lanka:
Sri Lanka has been experiencing economic stagnation for a number of years now. As a result, political stumbling blocks have been created. Sri Lanka has been in this situation for a number of reasons, due to various schemes, loans on credit, and inadequate financial recovery.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, who had previously abolished the anti-LTTE organization LTTE when he was President of Sri Lanka, was expected to take the country to another level as Prime Minister. But, all of that has been turning around. There is a perception that people in Sri Lanka now have to regret the infrastructure in Sri Lanka of over two billion people.
People in Sri Lanka have been protesting continuously for the past few months. There are many riots. More recently, more than eight people have been killed in such a protest. The general public’s outrage over the government’s attack on the houses and offices of the ruling party. Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned from his post as Prime Minister. His younger brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa is under tremendous pressure to become President of Sri Lanka.
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Mehbooba Mufti highlighted the pluralistic and rampant nationalism issue in Sri Lanka and said it was a lesson for India. There are views that the Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka, after returning to power, focused on making decisions that complement nationalism and pluralism. The impression that Muslims are a threat to the Sinhalese culture, such as the ban on burqa etc. are anti-minority. Some have criticized and worried that India has a similar climate. The PDP chairperson tweeted the same thing.
