NC should apologise to people for historical blunders: Vakil

Excelsior Correspondent
RAFIABAD, Dec 27: Senior vice president and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil today said that the NC has yet again shown its real face of duplicity and deceit.
While on the one hand they are befooling the people by projecting themselves as the saviours, on the other they make a U-turn on the issue of delimitation in a span of just six month but NC leadership should understand now their political deceit has no space in the new generation.
Addressing a massive workers’ convention at Chijhama in Rafiabad today, Vakil said “How can a party which changes its stance with every changing season be trusted to fight for the interests of the people of J&K. It is obvious that the NC is bailing the BJP led Central Government out not just nationally but internationally as well by giving legitimacy to delimitation exercise. Their history is a testament to the fact that they are willing to go to any extent and compromise the interests of the people of Kashmir for the sake of power. It is time that the people of Kashmir, especially the youth to lead this movement of change”, he said.
Vakil said there are doubts that NC top leaders knew about Article 370 revocation much before it was abrogated. They disempowered every institution in the erstwhile state.
Speaking on the occasion former minister Syed Basharat Bukhari said that J&K politics needs new ideas and energy. Sajad Lone is the only leader who can take us out of this impasse and restore the rights of people.
“The need of the hour is that the people of Kashmir stand with PC and its President Sajad Lone and help him realise his grand vision for the progress of the state and protecting the rights and dignity of its people”, he added.
Senior party leader Bashir Ahmed Dar said that the delimitation proposal is an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise the Kashmiris and that the PC completely rejects it. Democracy gave power to the majority. Now this Government wants to shift power from the majority to the minority, which is totally against the federal structure of the country”, he added.