Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 4: Dozens of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers today protested against the “mahachore” comment of National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah and also burnt his effigy.
PDP’s Khurshid Alam and Yasir Reshi termed the statement of senior Abdullah as “insulting and disgraceful” for people of Kashmir and demanded that he should tender an apology.
“People of Kashmir have chosen them (Sheikh family) as their leaders from last many decades and made them representatives of Kashmir, but today he (Abdullah) has hurt the sentiments of people here,” Alam said.
While leading the PDP rally from party headquarter towards Lal Chowk, Alam addressed a huge gathering of its workers after police contingent deployed at Regal Chowk stopped its workers and suggested them to disperse peacefully.
“We Kashmiris have given our everything to this family (Abdullah) from last 65 years, chose them as leaders and made them kings out of nothing, but they gave us miseries and insult us every time,” he said.
Meanwhile, dozens of AAP workers under the leadership of its party candidate for Lok Sabha for Srinagar parliamentary seat Muzaffar Bhat said that by calling Kashmiris thieves, Farooq Abdullah has once again disgraced Aam Aadmi of Kashmir.
Bhat said: “We will register a defamation case against him in the court over his murky comment.”
He said that those who have plundered the resources of the State for the sake of power and personal luxury and pleasure are now calling Kashmiris as thieves. “It is NC which sold out the natural water resources of the state to NHPC and in return got peanuts. Had the NHPC projects been returned to the State, the power situation would not have been what we are witnessing today,” he added.
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