Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 25: National Conference (NC) today expelled its senior leader and former Member Legislative Assembly (MLA) Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar from the basic membership of the party for his alleged anti-party activities.
“Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Ex MLA R/O Ganderbal has been removed from the basic membership of JKNC for 6 years in view of his anti-party activities and causing indiscipline. The order has been issued by the General Secretary JKNC,” NC said in its tweet.
The NC has witnessed infighting in Ganderbal, with its former district president and former MLA Ishfaq Jabbar openly revolting against the party leadership for the last several years.
Ishfaq had distanced himself from the NC for the last several years and was not attending the party meetings.
His wife Nuzhat Ishfaq is District Development Council (DDC) Chairperson from Ganderbal district and the duo have organized several functions for the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha in the district on their own without taking party into confidence.
Earlier in the day, NC president and former Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah warned those party members who are working against its interests, saying discipline is the most important thing and such people will not be allowed to remain in the organisation.
Abdullah while speaking at an NC function in Ganderbal district today said that the party has decided that those who work against it will not be allowed to remain in it. “An order will be issued to this effect soon. We will not allow such a person to remain in the party who tries to divide it,” he added.
The NC president said the most important thing for the party is discipline and unity.
“Farooq Abdullah is nothing without the party. If people look at me across the world, it is because I have the ‘plough’ (the NC’s party symbol) with me, the party is with me. The day the party is not with me, I am no one. All of us are here because of the party,” he said.
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