Jammu, March 20, (Scoop News)-Working President National Conference Mr Omar Abdullah on Friday accused PDP and BJP of perpetrating fear and uncalled for apprehensions in the minds of people on the basis of religion during the recently held assembly elections to further their electoral prospects, describing it as part of pre-fixed arrangement.
“In the Kashmir Valley and the Muslim dominated areas of the Jammu region, especially the Chenab Valley, PDP generated an atmosphere of fear psychosis about BJP and RSS trampling and mutilating their distinct identity to garner maximum votes but later joined them as per prefixed game-plan”, Mr Omar Abdullah said while welcoming merger of the J&K Unit of Samajwadi Party, led by its President Sheikh Abdul Rehman, into the National Conference fold.
Mr Omar said that Mufti Mohoammed Sayeed did not tell to his voters even once during his heightened but pretended anti-saffron campaigning that PDP was going to forge an alliance with BJP. In fact, he portrayed both BJP and RSS as enemy number one of Muslims and subtly coerced them to vote for his party. After getting 28 seats he virtually threw his party into the BJP lap by dramatising and delaying the government formation.
The Working President took jibe on BJP, saying it bartered everything for the loaves of power. “At end of the day, what BJP has gained out of alliance with PDP and with which face they will be returning back to their constituencies after making tall promises and generating euphoria”, he asked.
He said PDP and BJP have left the situation polarised in Jammu and Kashmir by causing enormous damage to its secular fabric. In such a situation it is incumbent upon the secular forces to come together and meet the challenge posed by deceptive, hypocritical and opportunistic alliance. He made a strong pitch in this regard and said National Conference will perform its designated role being the secular and forward looking party of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Elaborating the need for secular forces coming together, Mr Omar Abdullah referred to his party’s support to Congress nominee Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad during the elections to Rajya Sabha and said it was a conscious decision to strengthen the forces believing in inclusiveness of the state. “The decision to support Congress was difficult in the backdrop of opposing each other in the elections but for the overall good of the state and in the larger interest of amity it was imperative”, he asserted. He hoped that all like minded secular forces will join hands to foil the sinister machinations of PDP-BJP combine.
Welcoming Sheikh Abdul Rehman and office bearers of his party at a specially held function at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan, Mr Omar Abdullah described him a veteran legislator and parliamentarian who has immensely contributed towards the development and prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir in different capacities.
Mr Abdullah said Sheikh Abdul Rehman’s joining will give a new impetus to the party and strengthen it at grass roots level. He described the event as good omen for the secular forces across the State.
In his address, Sheikh Abdul Rehman said the General Council of the State Unit of Samajwadi Party took a conscious decision to merge into National Conference keeping in view its secular credentials and service towards the people over decades.
Mr Rehman agreed with Mr Abdullah about PDP-BJP playing a deceitful politics during the assembly elections and said that he was privy to at least dozen of instances where PDP had fielded candidates to cut Muslim votes for benefitting the BJP. Such a vicious politics, he said, was not conducive for Jammu and Kashmir.
He said National Conference will have to play its crucial role in leading the secular forces to achieve the overall objective of steering the state to peace, progress and development.
Alongside Sheikh Abdul Rehman those who joined National Conference included Sheikh Mohammed Shafi, State Secretary, Mrs Amrit Varsha, President State Women Wing of the party and Mrs Pushpa Dogra, General Secretary.
Earlier, Provincial President Devender Singh Rana and other senior leaders of the party greeted and garlanded Sheikh Abdul Rehman and his associates on their joining the National Conference.
Two time legislator and a former MP, Sheikh Abdul Rehman had been the State President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh now the BJP.
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