Mir Farhat
SRINAGAR, Mar 30: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President Saif-ud-Din Soz today said that if Bharatiya Janata Party’s Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister, it will be India’s first step towards fascism.
Soz said that he feels that Modi has no chance to become Prime Minster of India. “Modi does not have the knowledge of subjects; he even did not know the name of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation. Prime Ministership of India is something special and I don’t think Modi can be PM,” Soz told reporters after addressing the convention of Congress workers at a local hotel here.
“And if Modi succeeds in that (becoming PM), then India will have taken first steps toward fascism. It (his Prime Minsitership) is dangerous for India,” he said.
Earlier, in the convention the Congress workers expressed their resentment with the party decision of pre-poll alliance in the Parliamentary elections with National Conference.
The convention witnessed heated exchange of words and the activists were disappointed that their voices of no pre-poll alliance with the NC was not heard by the party high command at the Centre.
Soz also admitted that the party workers complained against the alliance with NC.
“Coalition by itself is not easy. There are difficulties. Our workers are complaining about the coalition (with NC). But, I as the President will convince them to vote for the three NC candidates in the coming elections,” he said.
The JKPCC president said workers have the right to voice their grievances. “But this is not the time to take the grievances deeper. This is the time to take a united decision. I explained to them (workers) that I accepted the decision and now you too accept it,” he said.
Soz said the convention was called to take the workers into confidence to vote for the NC candidates as they (NC workers) are voting for their candidates in Jammu.
After hectic deliberations at the Centre, NC and Congress have agreed to contest in alliance on the six Parliament seats in the state, with NC contesting from three seats in Kashmir and Congress on the three from Jammu and Ladakh.
Earlier, leaders of both the parties were against contesting the election together.
NC’s Additional Secretary Mustafa Kamaal had said that their workers who have sacrificed their life for the party will not vote the Congress candidates.
Even Soz himself had said that the Congress workers would not like to vote the NC candidates as there are huge disgruntlement with NC. “I am confident that NC-Congress will win all the six Parliamentary seats in the State”, he said.
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