Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 4: National Conference president, Dr Farooq Abdullah, today accused Bharatiya Janata Party’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of inciting killings in Assam that left 32 Muslims dead in three days.
“It is clear that after Modi delivered his speech in Assam (during a poll rally) communal tensions were incited,” Abdullah told reporters after addressing a poll rally in Pattan town of Baramulla.
Abdullah said that the Muslims have a right to live in Assam as other countrymen. “The murder of Muslims is very unfortunate, and it should stop. Government should send Army there to stop further killings,” he said.
The Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy was in Pattan to address a rally to seek votes for party candidate, Sharif-ud-Din Shariq, from Baramulla-Kupwara Parliamentary constituency. A day before his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah also accused Modi for inciting killings of Muslims in Assam.
Abdullah said that the entire country should stand united against Narendra Modi and his divisive, communal agenda. “This man is set to divide India on the basis of religion. We cannot allow him to succeed. The costs that India and especially its minorities might have to pay if Modi becomes PM are enormous. National Conference will be at the front lines of a battle to protect India’s and State’s history of communal harmony, amity and brotherhood. We will not allow Modi to succeed”, he added.
The Union Minister also denied that his party is pasting threatening posters and letters to keep people away from polling.
“Why should we write such posters and letters,” Abdullah replied to the accusation of his political rival People’s Democratic Party (PDP) which has been blaming National Conference for killing Panchayat members to instill fear among people so they stay away from ballot.
“Our workers are being killed. Bombs are exploded on our meetings. Then, we will write these posters! Neither have we done these things in the past nor will we do it in future,” Abdullah said.
Earlier while addressing the election rally Abdullah accused PDP candidate Muzaffar Baig of suggesting the abrogation of Article 370 to former Governor of the State, Jagmohan. “It was Baig as Governor Jagmohan’s Advocate General who suggested the abrogation of Article 370 and showed Jagmohan the legal ways and recourses to transfer Kashmiri prisoners outside the State in scorching heat. It was Mufti and Baig who were part of Jagmohan’s assault on the soul of Kashmir when unprecedented massacres were being carried out in Kashmir. These who are pretending to be wound healers today are the ones who have inflicted some of the most brutal wounds on the hearts and minds of the Kashmiri people.”
The NC president said that Baig with patronage from Mufti Sayeed as the Home Minister, played a significant role in the implementation of laws like AFSPA and DAA in the State. “Today they shed crocodile tears about the same laws. Wasn’t it Mehbooba Mufti who pledged and swore that she would give up security if AFSPA wasn’t revoked? What happened to that melodrama? It is a fact that PDP never spoke about the revocation of AFSPA while in power. When asked today – they say that they mentioned it in phone conversations to Delhi. Do they think the people of Kashmir are such abject fools to believe their lies and drama?”, Dr. Farooq said.
Abdullah said that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed doesn’t believe in the politics of ideology but has invested his entire life in the politics of sabotage and intrigue. “Mufti has spent the greater part of his career trying to dislodge democratically elected Governments and hopping from one party to another and one camp to another for power. Now he has fallen to the level of joining hands with Narendra Modi “, he added.
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