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On Valentine’s Day in 2008, three boats on the Chenab sailed from Akhnoor in Jammu towards Pakistan carrying rose-mounted toy guns, heart-shaped balloons, and a message of peace and love. For several years, these boats sailed towards Pakistan annually on February 14. The brain behind this was Darakhshan Andrabi, then an emerging peace activist and founder of the Socialist Democratic Party (SDP).
By 2014, Andrabi’s political ambitions had gravitated her towards the BJP. Last week, the Jammu and Kashmir Waqf Board chairperson found herself in the middle of a political storm as parties in the Valley demanded her resignation and apology over the installation of a plaque with the Ashoka emblem at the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar, which houses the holy relic of the Prophet. On September 5, devotees tried to take down the plaque with stones, and raised slogans saying the emblem was against the belief of “Tawheed (oneness of God)
Activist for peace with Pak to ‘staunch BJP nationalist’: The arc of J&K Waqf Board chief cni