Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 31: Chairman People’s Conference Sajad Lone today offered unconditional supports to those who are standing up to safeguard the special status of the State.
“We met Mehbooba Mufti and we assured her that she has our support with regard to the efforts to safeguard the special status of the State,” Lone told a press conference after the membership drive of the party here.
He said that for safeguarding the special status his party can go to any extent. “We told her that we were with her in her efforts; we will be with collective efforts that will be made in this direction because in safeguarding the special provision of 35-A, we can go to any extent,” he said.
Lone said that it was the time that the regional political parties should not up the ante against each other, rather stay united.
“It is the time when we shouldn’t issue statements against each other, but I am surprised that the intensity with which Omar Abdullah was talking about the issues during the elections, that intensity is altogether missing now as the issue is regarding the safeguard of Article 35-A. They seem to be more apologetic,” he said.
“There have to be collective efforts, but if somebody is scared then they should say that they are scared. Rest regarding the collective efforts at this time, let them just decide the venue and we will be there for giving out our support,” he added.
Asking National Conference to increase its tone as this juncture, he said: “NC is a big party, they should increase the intensity, they have 3 MPs; they should talk in and out of the Parliament. I think, when they said that, they will accept the court verdict on the issue, that was the blunder on their part if they stood for this, then why did they boycotted the Panchayat and ULB elections,” he said.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and ex-Member of Legislative Council Muzaffar Parray along with his workers joined Peoples Conference in presence of PC Chairman Sajad Gani Lone and other party leaders today.
Muzaffar Parray, while speaking on the occasion termed this day ‘as the happiest day of his political life and said that “he has full confidence in the vision and leadership of Peoples Conference which is the only party in Kashmir with potential to take our state out of the conflict and give a way to a new era of stability and economic development.”
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