Mehbooba Mufti Quotes
I'm not as large hearted as my father.
Mufti, Mehbooba. Address at PDP Workers Convention, Srinagar. Reported in "I am no visionary, not as large-hearted as my father: Mehbooba Mufti," The Indian Express, 22 Feb. 2016.
Describing Abraham Lincoln as he placed his name in a losing nomination for the Presidency:
This speech is often referred to as her “Golden” of “Farewell” speech. It was her last Parliament.
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.