Mir Farhat
Khanyar, Apr 27: National Conference President Farooq Abdullah today said that Kashmir will not be a part of India if communal people like Narendra Modi comes to power at the Centre.
“If India does not remain secular, then I challenge that Kashmir will not be a part of India. Kashmiris don’t accept communalism. If communal people like Narendra Modi come to power at the Centre and if India becomes communal, then Kashmir will cease to be a part of India,” Abdullah said during his election campaigning at Khanyar in downtown here.
Abdullah also targeted the BJP for making inflammatory speeches against those who oppose their Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, saying that all those who vote for Modi should jump into sea.
“They (BJP) said that those who do not vote for (Narendra) Modi should go to Pakistan. I said those who vote for Modi should jump into sea. I just quoted one extreme to the other extreme. It is because this is what these people are wanting to do. They want to take India to extremism,” he said.
The NC president, who is also the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, cautioned the voters to defeat the communal forces and claimed if Modi comes to the power the country would slip into the hands of communal forces.
“On one side you have communal people like Modi who want to abrogate Article 370 while on the other side we have secular parties like NC and Congress. BJP wants to use PDP to fulfill its long-standing dream of abrogating Article 370.”
Farooq said India and Pakistan have to resolve the Kashmir issue as per the aspiration of the people of the region.
Accusing the PDP patron for pushing Jammu and Kashmir towards backwards, he said, “Mufti Muhammad Sayeed makes only hollow slogans that he would resolve the Kashmir issue if PDP gets the majority in the State Assembly. Why he has not resolved the Kashmir issue when Mufti was the Union Home Minister and remained Chief Minister of the State for three years.”
He challenged the PDP patron for a debate on the television. “He (Mufti) has been criticising me but I challenge him for a debate on the television on any issue. Actually he (Mufti) is the biggest thief of the State,” he claimed.
Snubbing the PDP patron remarks that NC was using boycott calls for its own benefits, he said PDP has sensed loss in the elections.
“I think he has lost the elections. Now he wants to find avenues of telling people that he lost because we made his loose. It is not because people have rejected him,” he said.
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