TIL Desk/National/Jammu/ Terming the Kathua rape incident as “alarming”, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has expressed anguish that “a living form of the Mata” has been treated so cruelly in the land where girls are worshipped as incarnation of Goddess Durga.
Addressing the 6th convocation at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, the chief minister said the heinous act of the perpetrators “has shocked us as a society” and showed that the value system was facing a crisis. She batted for inclusion of value education in curriculum, saying “our material growth becomes meaningless, if we are not able to become a good human beings”.
“The entire set of rituals are practised in this part of the state (Jammu) as Kanya Puja, where minor girls have been worshipped as incarnation of Goddess Durga. How could anybody do such a heinous act against one such living form of ‘Mata’ in her own land”, the chief minister said referring to the Kathua rape victim.
She said that Trikuta hills are known as the abode of Goddess Mata Vaishno Devi and are the best testimony of this society and how they are treating the females.
