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Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday blamed TV channels for spreading “false propaganda” about the state, projecting the Valley as a dangerous area which she said was preventing people from travelling to the state.
Inaugurating a two-day national medical conferences here, Mufti said: “I would like to put on record my appreciation of distinguished doctors who have come from outside the state, despite the propaganda we see on electronic media every night 24×7.”
“I am many a times told by the tourists that ‘We are amazed and amused when we are sitting in shikharas or hotels and watch the evening news’. They have to pinch themselves to know that they are in the same place that is called Kashmir which television is talking about. They make it seem so dangerous.”
The chief minister inaugurated the second Jammu and Kashmir Medical Sciences Congress and the first annual conference of Metabolic Syndrome, Pre-diabetes, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (MPPCOS) Society here, which was slated to be attended by over 2,000 medical experts and researchers.
