Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 1: National Conference (NC) today said that it is ready to take on a BJP-PDP alliance but won’t allow a dilution of the State’s special status – be that by BJP or by PDP or as it appears, by a BJP, PDP alliance.
“The people of J&K are now aware of PDP’s plan of wooing BJP into an alliance ahead of the 2014 elections by regularly singing songs of praise in favor of Modi but PDP’s tacit, overt or covert alliance with Narendra Modi is unacceptable to the overwhelming majority of people in this State and goes against our history of demonstrated brotherhood, amity and secularism”, said provincial president of the Party for Kashmir, Nasir Wani in a statement here today.
“NC has been repeatedly expressing alarm at PDP’s unholy alliance of ideological convenience with the BJP. We have clear reasons to believe that Mufti Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti are being mentored into a tacit alliance with Modi by a retired Intelligence Bureau Director, a senior Indian journalist and a social worker whose dealings in the Valley’s political circuits have been shady, occult and questionable” Wani maintained.
The NC leader further said that speaking at the Idea Exchange Programme, Mehbooba Mufti has alluded to a certain “authority” that Modi apparently commands – one that empowers him to act “tough” on Kashmir and one she and her party are willing to support and facilitate from within the State.
This unambiguous pledge of support to Narendra Modi and his longstanding dream of revoking the State’s special status is harrowing and unacceptable to the people of this State, he asserted.
Wani further said that the Party will not allow Narendra Modi and PDP to harm J&K’s special status and launch a covert assault on our secular ethos by driving a communal wedge between communities.
Meanwhile, the party elections held at National Conference headquarter Nawa-e-Subh unanimously elected Nasir Aslam Wani as the Provincial President of National Conference for Kashmir Province.
No other party leader filed the nomination papers for the post of Provincial President against Wani, hence the later got elected sans competition.
Speaking at the occasion, Nasir retreated that NC will emerge as a single largest party in the forthcoming polls in the State.
Nasir further said that the party has strengthened itself at the grass root levels in the State and that the efforts of the leadership must be to maintain calibre and selflessness. “The need of the hour is to safeguard the interests of the party at every level and not to get divided at any cost”, he added.”
MLA Zadibal Peer Afaq has been re-elected as Srinagar District President.
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