A day after party’s emphatic victory in the Parliamentary elections, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Ravinder Raina said that his party would never prefer an alliance with National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir after the Assembly elections.
“We don’t need anyone to form a government in the State aswe’re sure that our party will get more than 50 seats in the Assemblyelections,” Raina said when asked whether his party will prefer an alliancewith NC that won the public mandate from Kashmir region in the Parliamentaryelections.
Raina mocked at Dr Farooq Abdullah when asked about latter’sassertion that BJP wins elections by polarizing people.
“Dr Farooq Abdullah has polled as much votes in Srinagar LSpolls as are polled in favour of Sarpanchs here in Jammu in the Panchayatelections. Our party has polled 17 lakh votes in this election. And this figureis double than combined figures of PDP, NC, Congress, NPP and other independentcandidates put together. So we shouldn’t take Farooq’s words seriously.”
Raina said that while his party candidates from Jammu-Poonchand Kathua-Doda-Udhampur parliamentary seats, Dr Jitendra Singh and JugalKishore Sharma, won with better vote percentage this time, a debutant inLadakh, Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, also made the party proud by winning with agood margin.
Asked about killing of Zakir Musa on the day of BJP’svictory, he said, “Zakir Musa and his alike will meet the same end if theywouldn’t shun the pathway of violence.”
Meanwhile, in a scathing attack on Congress, the BJP Statepresident said that the grand old party of the country had to face successivedefeats at the hands of people due to its love for militants, separatists andMaoists.
“People of this country are mature enough to differentiatebetween a party that gives no space to anti-country emotions and leaders ofother party who add ‘ji’ with the dreaded militants,” Ravinder Raina saidadding that such leaders and the party they belong to have been rejected by thevoters.