Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other Valley-based political parties strongly condemned her remarks and the ruling party had been demanding an apology.
After meeting the CJP protesters at Jantar Mantar, Mehbooba said the use of pellet guns in Kashmir was justified due to militancy, saying security forces there face militants.
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that the silence of people in the face of hate speech in the country only emboldens those who seek to divide society.
The AIIMS Awantipora project was sanctioned in 2015 when late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, founder of the PDP and father of Mehbooba Mufti, was Chief Minister of erstwhile J&K state.
