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Jammu and Kashmir Health Minister Sakeena Itoo connected Friday (June 5, 2026) took objection to erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti touring the under-construction tract of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Kashmir, successful southbound Kashmir’s Awantipora area.
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“Some radical look to beryllium suffering from governmental amnesia. They inactive behave arsenic if they are successful power, adjacent though they mislaid bureau successful 2018 and person since been repeatedly rejected by the people. The elected authorities contiguous is led by Hon’ble Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. Yet, 1 wonders successful what capableness erstwhile rulers are conducting reviews of the AIIMS Awantipora project,” said Ms. Itoo, successful a statement.
In an oblique notation to the BJP, Ms. Itoo said, “More importantly, who is signalling them to undertake specified exercises? Which powerfulness centre successful Delhi is directing these actions? It is ironic that those due to the fact that of whom the AIIMS task moved astatine a painfully dilatory gait are present trying to assertion ownership of its progress.”
She said the information was that the task is moving towards completion due to the fact that of the focused efforts, monitoring, and committedness of the contiguous authorities nether the enactment of CM Omar Abdullah. “The radical of J&K are omniscient capable to separate betwixt those who delayed improvement and those who are ensuring its delivery,” she said.
The Jammu and Kashmir Health Minister’s connection came hours aft Ms. Mufti, on with Tral legislator Rafiq Ahmad Naik and Pulwama legislator Waheed -ur Rehman Parra, visited the AIIMS, Awantipora, “to recognize the advancement being made connected the task and prosecute with the acrophobic agencies connected the ground”.
“It was a imagination task of Mufti Muhammad Sayeed. It’s bully to spot the enactment has gained pace. The task is bound to beryllium beneficial for the section area. I americium hopeful locals volition beryllium preferred for astir of the non-professional and non-technical posts,” said Ms. Mufti.
Ms. Mufti was seen being briefed by the AIIMS officials astir the project. “Mufti sahab envisioned and laid the instauration for AIIMS Awantipora successful 2015. Much advancement has been made connected this important institution, a task initiated by the PDP implicit a decennary ago. AIIMS Awantipora has the imaginable to look arsenic 1 of the starring centres of healthcare, aesculapian education, and probe successful J&K,” said Ms. Mufti.
She besides requested Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda “to kindly expedite completion of this captious instauration truthful that prime healthcare services tin scope the radical of J&K astatine the earliest”.
