Reacting sharply to National Conference Vice President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s statement that they will revoke AFSPA and POTA if voted to power, People’s Conference senior Vice President and former minister Abdul Gani Vakil said that it was the leadership of NC which brought these laws to Kashmir and “turned the valley into a prison of despair”.
In a statement Vakil said, “NC leadership at the time ofelections always promise heavens to gullible people of Kashmir but once theyare trusted back to power, they not only backtrack from their election promisesbut bring disaster and catastrophe for the people of Kashmir. NC has alwayspromised autonomy but never tried to restore it. Instead, history has provedhow the dynastic party collaborates for Delhi in eroding the left out autonomyenjoyed by the state”.
Vakil asserted that NC and PDP are the two sides of the samecoin and their dynastic rule inflicted only misery on the common people ofKashmir. Holding both these parties responsible for nepotism and deep rootedcorruption in state, Vakil said that “it is NC and PDP whichinstitutionalised corruption in state and fixed rates for even class fourthrecruitments.” While lambasting National Conference’s primary role inrigging 1987 election, Vakil said that “it is NC which is responsible for boththe current sorry state of affairs in valley and bloodbath because they stolemandate in 1987 elections that led to armed rebellion which has consumedhundreds of thousands of lives till now.” Appealing people to not to fall intothe trap of this deceptive politics of these two parties, Vakil said that it istime to defeat these dynastic parties and throw them out of the politicalspectrum of state never to come back.