Srinagar, Mar 27: National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah today said that his party will repeated the 1977 victory against the BJP and its subsidiary parties.
He said the upcoming general elections provides “us an opportunity to show our reejction for GoI’s August 5, 2019 actions.” According to a press release he was addressing a District Working Committee meeting of Budgam at the party’s district headquarters Mujahid Manzil, Srinagar.
Among others Party General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, senior leaders Abdul Rahim Rather, and Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi were present.
Omar said the reason why BJP and its subsidiary parties here have united against NC is because “our party has not accepted the actions of August 5, 2019.” He said, “These strange bedfellows were forced to club together despite their differences. There is nothing in common between them. They do not look into each other’s eyes. Yet they were forced to club against us. 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. Today also people are with us, and as long as we have people’s support no power on earth can harm us.”
The former chief minister stated that NC 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. This time itis about making our stance clear to powers in Delhi and the world that we didn’t approve of the decisions of August 2019,”he said.