Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 13: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah without naming the Centre today said that forces inimical to State’s interests are trying to influence forthcoming Assembly elections in the State.
Abdullah while addressing a provincial committee meet of Kashmir said that the State is facing unprecedented challenge and the need of the hour calls for keeping personal interests aside for greater interests of the party and the State.
He said the State is facing a grim situation which necessitated for a united response from all of us. “We are faced with a tough struggle; the forces as are inimical to the State’s interests are trying their level best to influence the elections”, he said.
Without naming BJP, Dr Abdullah said that they are trying to create divisions in State for their own interests. “They can go to any extent to create divisions between the regions and communities and eventually milk the situation to its hilt to grind their axe. It is not concealed as to what is the agenda of our detractors, they have explicitly made it clear time and again that they want to obliterate the special status and the territorial integrity of the State. The need of the hour is to maintain unity among our rank and file and fight with a resolute mind,” he said.
The NC leader said that the people of the State will defeat their nefarious designs. “Sher-e-Kashmir always held that people are the real source of power. During the recently concluded elections, people have overwhelming came out in support of us. People have considerately reposed their faith in our party to carry forward the mission of protecting the integrity and special character of the State”, he added.
The NC president while exuding confidence into the workers and party functionaries said: “The need of the hour calls for increasing greater contact with the people across the State. It is for our workers and party functionaries to take the agenda and program of the party to every household. The need of the hour is acquaint the people about the party’s spectacular past and the future programme by undertaking a door to door campaign. There is no scope of complacency. Our mission is explicit and clear, it is to protect the special status of the State and put the State back on the track of development and prosperity”, he said.
“We have to maintain the momentum of the Parliament elections till Assembly elections. The party rank and file has to proactively engage with party leadership in Pir Panjal regions, Chenab regions and Ladakh region”, Abdullah told the meeting.
Among others party senior leaders Haji Ali Mohammad Sagar, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamal, Nasir Aslam Wani, Muhammad Akbar Lone, Choudhary Mahammad Ramzan, Abdul Rahim Rather, Mahammad Shafi Uri, district presidents, segment in-charges, women’s wing, minority cell and YNC functionaries were also present in the meeting.
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