Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 5: National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah today lashed out at Government for curbs on the movement of civilians on the National Highway.
Addressing a public meet at Chak Dhara, Fakirgujri on the outskirts of Srinagar, Dr Abdullah said: “Never in history, have the State highways been closed for civilian traffic, even during the most tumultuous times witnessed by the State. Even during the height of Kargil war, the civilian vehicular movement was never disallowed as is being done today. The order should be revoked as it will make lives of lakhs of people miserable”, Abdullah said.
The NC president, who is contesting from Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, asserted that people of the State are the rightful owners of Jammu & Kashmir, and no one can abridge our constitutional rights.
Abdullah said that the people of Kashmir have never allowed any one to subdue them. “New Delhi has time and again betrayed people of the State by backpedaling on the assurances it gave from time to time on restoring Autonomy,” he said.
The NC president said that people of the country have to choose between secular or communal forces of the country. “Today our nation is facing immense hazard in the form of communal strife. We are at cross roads, now it is up to us to decide if India remains secular and progressive in its outlook where in all the communities thrive and draw their sustenance affably or a country which is tangled with the clutches of communal strife and bigotry. The opportunity has come; we should not let it pass by us unutilized. Today on one hand there is Gandhi’s India which is all inclusive and on other hand there are forces, which believe that India belongs to the adherents of only one faith”, he said.
Lashing out at Mehbooba for betraying the mandate of people given to it in 2014, Dr Abdullah said that PDP betrayed the mandate of people by hobnobbing with the BJP. “People had reposed their faith in them but what followed was a colossal betrayal of that trust. Their embrace with BJP-RSS plunged the State into chaos and uncertainty”, he said.
Castigating former PDP-BJP Government on the implementation of GST, the NC president said: “PDP implemented the National Food Security Act, GST Act and SARFAESI. The BJP-PDP combine severely put to distress the ordinary populace of the State”, he said.
“The incumbent Modi Government failed on all fronts and to hide its failures it has created a confrontational situation with a neighbouring country to hide the farmer distress, price rise, foreign policy failures, and falling economy. Every single vital sector of our country is presenting a grim tale of mis-governance,” Farooq said.
“Our vote will make difference both at Centre and at State level. The people should avail of this opportunity and send the candidates of NC to Parliament. In these difficult times we should repose our trust in God. Only He will salvage us from the tumultuous times we are going through”, the NC president said.
“We in Jammu and Kashmir suffer immensely due to the animosity between India and Pakistan. National Conference for past 70 years has been vouching for affable Indo-Pak relations. We in National Conference have persistently maintained that Indo-Pak bonhomie will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity in our peace craving State. I believe and hope that the next Government would initiate dialogue with Pakistan, because if the two countries come closer, the dividends of their friendship will be felt in our State, which always come between the line of fire between India and Pakistan”, Abdullah said.
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