Communal forces will meet their waterloo in Chenab valley, said Senior National Conference leaders while addressing a mammoth public gathering at Chatroo in Inderwal Assembly constituency Monday.
The NC leaders were on the first leg of their four-day tourto the Chenab Valley.
NC General Secretary, Ali Mohammad Sagar said the NationalConference has always believed in strengthening the secular ethos of the stateand “there are forces working overtime to destabilize the pluralisticequilibrium of the state.”
He said the NC is ready to make any sacrifice whatsoever toensure the ethos of the state is not disturbed.
He said that “deliberate attempts are being made to createfissures among different communities for votebank politics in the ChenabValley, but the people of the area understand these machinations and will notallow them to succeed.”
He, according to an NC handout, said the enthusiasmdisplayed in the gathering in Inderwal organized by Pyare Lal Sharma, theConstituency Incharge of the National Conference is a testimony to this.
Speaking on the occasion, Provincial President DevenderSingh Rana said that National Conference is a force to reckon with, which isall set to give the state a strong and vibrant government on its own.
Rana said the first and foremost task for the NC would be toassuage the regional and sub-regional aspirations and putting the state back onthe rails of development and progress.
He accused the previous PDP-BJP dispensation of derailingthe developmental tempo initiated and sustained by successive National Conferencedispensations.
“The thread left in 2014 is to be picked again to givemomentum to development, job creation and instilling sense of security amongthe people,” he maintained.
In his address, NC Additional General Secretary Dr. SheikhMustafa Kamal said that divisive politics has harmed the interests of the stateand time has come to bid adieu to such political culture, which is alien to itssecular fabric.
Sajjad Kitchloo called for a collective effort for foilingthe “ugly game plan of the reactionary forces”, who he said have joined handsto “destabilize the state”.