Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the upcoming general elections provides us an opportunity to show our rejection for GoI’s August 05, 2019 actions.
This he said while addressing a District Working Committee meeting of Budgam at the party’s District headquarters Mujahid Manzil, Srinagar.
Omar said the reason why BJP & its subsidiary parties here have united against NC is because JKNC has not accepted the actions of August 05, 2019.
He said, “These strange bedfellows were forced to club together despite their differences. There is nothing in common between them. They don’t look into each other’s eyes. Yet they were forced to club against us.
Omar Abdullah recalled historical instances where New Delhi orchestrated alliances to challenge their party, but the people's support prevailed.
“This is not the first time, New Delhi is pitching parties against us. We have outlived such situations successfully in the past as well. 1977 elections witnessed how New Delhi propped up a massive alliance of politicians, religious leaders, and other organizations against us. But people outrightly rejected them,” he said.
“Today also people are with us, and as long as we have people’s support no power on earth can harm us.”
“The party will come up with a road map to address mounting public woes in the upcoming Assembly elections when they are held in August and September later this year.”
We will come up with a manifesto to ease administrative discomfort, address soaring unemployment, skyrocketing electricity bills during the run upto assembly elections, he said.
“This time it’s about making our stance clear to powers in Delhi and the world that we didn’t approve of the decisions of August 2019.”