Mir Farhat
Srinagar, Jan 14: National Conference legislator and Additional General Secretary, Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal today ruled out forging any pre-poll alliance with Congress in the forthcoming Parliament and Assembly elections in the State.
“NC has never in its history forged any pre-poll alliance with any party. Our workers have rejected any pre-poll option. We regret that we formed a Coalition Government with the Congress because it has been compromise with loss. So, there is nothing like having pre-poll alliance with Congress in any election,” Kamaal told reporters at Party Headquarters in Nawa-i-Subh, here this afternoon.
“Our workers tell us about the party’s position on pre-poll alliance to get out of the confusion, and we have told them clearly that there will be no alliance with them before elections,” Kamaal said.
Kamaal also hit out at the State Congress chief Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz for terming elections as “friendly match”. “Soz has called the election as a friendly match; it is a childish remark. Election is an election, and cannot be called a friendly match,” he said.
“Our 20,000 workers have been killed in the last two decades. We cannot compromise on contesting elections and betray with the love of our party workers by asking them to vote for Congress candidates,” he said.
Kamaal also flayed the Army Chief General Bikram Singh that Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) should not be diluted in the State in view of US troop drawdown in Afghanistan.
Kamaal said even the Prime Minister has himself said that there is a huge decline in militancy.
NC wants that anti-militancy deployment should be rolled back from the State, he said.
Responding to a question on politics being played out on creation of new administrative units, Kamaal said People’s Democratic Party is only for dividing people in the State.
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