Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 28: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, president and MP from Srinagar, Dr Farooq Abdullah today visited party office Srinagar and interacted with party functionaries and workers.
Interacting with the functionaries, he said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been guarding the frontiers of their culture, heritage and traditions since ages. “It becomes all the more important to preserve our culture, language and traditions in our families in wake of the attempts aimed at destroying it. We have to stop seeing ourselves as Hindu- Muslim, Shia-Suni, Barelvi- Deobandi,” he added.
“Unity in diversity must be our creed to last for all time and under all circumstances, otherwise there is no end in sight to our common problems in the shape of poverty, unemployment, and under-development. Our mutual discord will make our descent into darkness,” the Srinagar MP asserted.
Farooq said the National Conference has a history of rendering sacrifices for the people of this State. Asking people to take pride in their culture and mother-tongue, he said the identity of a nation was its most valuable asset.
Among others Party general secretary Ali Mohd Sagar, senior leader Mubarak Gul, Media, Social Media, YNC and Women’s wing functionaries were also present on the occasion.
Farooq Abdullah asserted that it was Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah who prepared and presented a blue-print for the welfare and progress of Jammu and Kashmir. “It was Sheikh Sahib who demonstrated that political power was not an end in itself but the means to an end. Political power is a medium to protect, nourish and nurture the identity of a people and this ideal has been upheld by the National Conference since its very creation,” he added.
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