Excelsior Correspondent
ANANTNAG, June 16: National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah today said that Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti was at the forefront of PDP’s shocking betrayal with the people of Kashmir and asked Mehbooba Mufti to remember her rhetoric and slogans when she was an opposition leader.
“Mehbooba Mufti scripted the PDP-BJP Alliance and it was none other than Mehbooba Mufti who took part in the first formal meeting between PDP and BJP in New Delhi. She has abandoned all her promises to hang on to power. We still remember her election speeches about how it was important to vote for PDP to keep BJP out of J&K. Today the greatest irony is that she heads the PDP-BJP Alliance in J&K”, Omar Abdullah said while addressing two public rallies in Kehribal and Krangsoo in Anantnag.
“On one hand the entire State is reeling under a governance crisis and on the other hand the entire State machinery and administration is focused on the Anantnag by-poll. Our ration depots are empty, people are being deprived of drinking water and electricity during the holy month of Ramzan. Even here in Anantnag, PDP’s indifference towards the people has been a historical fact. Their leaders have never shown their faces to the people of Anantnag after getting their votes to claim power in the Assembly”, he said.
The NC Working President said the Anantnag by-poll was a battle between the ideology of Kashmir and the ideology of Nagpur. “Today the State’s remote control lies in Nagpur and Mehbooba Mufti gets her day-to-day directions from the RSS Headquarters. The same Mehbooba Mufti who used to jump into the Well of the Assembly to seek AFSPA revocation and return of power projects has gone completely silent on these issues after becoming the Chief Minister”, he added.
“What happened to PDP’s ‘Battle of Ideas’ promise? During the tenure of the previous Government Yasin Malik was free to tour areas and speak about his ideology and views as long as it didn’t convert into a law and order situation. Today the same Mehbooba Mufti who speaks of 1987 as the alleged genesis of the political turmoil has instructed the Police to book Yasin Malik in a 29 year old case pertaining to a public meeting organized for the MUF in 1989”, Omar said and asked Is this her ‘Battle of Ideas’?
He asked the people of Anantnag to vote for Iftikhar Misger as he would represent them and work towards alleviating their grievances as opposed to Mehbooba Mufti who had become a known expert at u-turns and back-pedaling.
The public meetings were also addressed by senior NC leaders including NC General Secretary Haji Ali Mohammad Sagar, NC Vice President Chaudhary Mohammad Ramzan, NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, senior leader Sakina Itoo, party Legislators Altaf Kaloo, Majid Larmi, Dr. Bashir Veeri, Showkat Ganai and others.
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