NC contesting elections has unnerved BJP: Nasir

National Conference on Friday rejected the “jibe” of MoS PMO Dr Jitendra Singh as “sheer panicky borne out of BJP’s edginess” about the participation of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference in forthcoming Assembly and Parliamentary elections.

In a statement issued from party headquarters Nawa-e-Subah, NC provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani said the working committee decision to stay away from polls was limited to ULB and Panchayat elections. 

   

“The decision had nothing to do with Assembly or Parliamentary elections. We will fight to win the forthcoming elections so as to defend Articles 35A and 370 and prevent the BJP from installing its proxies via the backdoor as they have started doing.”

“The assertions of Dr Singh are reflective of the jittery that BJP and its proxies in Kashmir are facing,” he said.

“Even if we wanted to boycott the forthcoming elections, people would pressurize us to fight. They are watchful of the BJP and its henchmen and in such an uncertain situation people would want us to put up a strong front against the contriving RSS and its servile proxies,” he said.

“Our party took a stand to stay away from ULB, Panchayat elections in the wake of the vacillating approach of GOI towards Articles 35A and 370 which is an article of faith for us,” he said adding, “We have already requested Governor SP Malik to plead for deferment on next hearing of Article 35A in the Supreme Court till the formation of a popular government in the state. And he has principally agreed to our suggestion.” 

He said that BJP in spite of a “poor front” put up by the Congress party and the non-participation of local parties had to be content with just four municipal wards in Srinagar. “The very thought of us participating in the elections has unnerved them. And our endeavour shall be to resist any machinations of the RSS and its proxies in the state. People would never want us to let these forces as are inimical to states special status, make inroads in the state,” he said.

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