Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 18: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today said after having lost the regional character, National Conference has now reduced itself to a mere tool of fragmentation and division of votes which is what the RSS aims at in order to grab power in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The popular base of the National Conference as an organization has now drastically shrunk and it now comprises of a group of individual leaders who are trying to survive in politics under its banner which has become a liability for them,” she said while addressing various roadside meetings in Sonawari Assembly segment of Bandipura district.
Mehbooba said the National Conference, which for a long time had been a dominant political force in Jammu and Kashmir, has lost its clout among the people because of its repeated sellouts and compromises which it kept on doing for the sake of power.
“NC has not only transformed itself into an available appendage for sharing power either with Congress or BJP but it has reduced itself to a mere tool of fragmentation and division of votes,” she said adding the party over the years has done a serious damage to its popularity and the Omar Abdullah’s current six year’s tenure has proved proverbial ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’.
Recalling that the NC got slim lead in only six Assembly segments in this year’s Lok Sabha polls, Mehbooba alleged that the party along with some other smaller groups was being kept alive on oxygen to serve the purpose of certain forces to help them in their designs to divide the votes in the Kashmir valley, so that a united voice doesn’t emerge from here. “RSS and BJP are trying to implement their sinister agenda of saffronising Jammu and Kashmir by consolidating the votes of one community and fragmenting the other,” she said and warned that willingly or unwillingly the NC and some other elements were becoming partners in this intrigue against the distinct pluralistic identity of the State.
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