Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 6: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today blamed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti for NIA trap against Hurriyat Conference (M) Chairman Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq and reiterated demand for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) the way it was revoked in Arunachal Pradesh.
Talking to reporters after addressing an election rally at Kupwara, Omar said that NIA filed an FIR against Mirwaiz Molvi Umar Farooq in 2017 when Mehbooba Mufti was Chief Minister and so she (Mehbooba) alone is responsible for the notices NIA is sending to Mirwaiz.
Reiterating demand for revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), Omar said AFSPA should be revoked in Jammu and Kashmir the way it was revoked in Arunachal Pradesh.
Saying that Article 370 has been worst hit by implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Omar dared Mehbooba Mufti to prove that National Conference has even once extended such a law to the State which has damaged Article 370 anytime in any way.
Omar while addressing the rally blamed PDP and Peoples Conference for facilitating the entry of BJP in J&K. The former Chief Minister said: “PDP and PC pushed the State towards destruction by providing a platform to RSS-BJP in the State. Today if Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley are explicitly talking against the special constitutional position of our State, who should we hold responsible for it? Who provided them space in our State? Who got them here in our State? It is PDP and PC who are answerable to people for opening flood gates of the State to BJP-RSS.”
Cautioning the people about the theatrics and false propaganda unleashed by PDP-PC combine, Omar said: “Both Mehbooba Mufti and Sajad Gani Lone blind folded their eyes when they were running the Government with BJP”.
While flaying PC and PDP for shedding election time crocodile tears, Omar said: “Where was their sympathy when our traders, students were targeted upon across many parts of country? Why didn’t Sajad approach his elder brother at that time? When sharing power with BJP, both PC and PDP had bolted their mouths. What is the fun of having a relation that cannot help lessen the miseries of the people of State? On the contrary the people of the State particularly the people of Kashmir had to bear the brunt of this relation”, Omar said.
Omar flayed PDP and PC for not representing the aspirations of the people of Kashmir. He said that when PDP was running the Government with BJP, it failed to take sincere efforts for the protection of Article 370, Article 35 A.
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