Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 13: National Conference today expressed surprise over clandestine PDP-BJP bonhomie ahead of Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the duo were still in alliance and hand-in-glove to influence the polls by deceit and deception.
“We have credible information about PDP soliciting the advice and direction of the BJP for fielding candidates, convenient to it, for Jammu-Poonch and Kathua-Udhampur Parliamentary constituencies to facilitate division of anti-BJP votes in order to ensuring the victory of BJP candidates”, senior National Conference leaders said in a joint statement, issued from Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here, adding that arrangement of convenience is at its final stages.
NC leaders accused the PDP of brightening BJP prospect in the two Parliamentary constituencies by fielding such candidates who can divide anti-BJP votes. “Essentially a product of the BJP, the PDP did it covertly in 2009 and overtly in 2014,” they said and described PDP’s anti-BJP posturing as a façade, saying the duo were in fact on the same page.
The senior National Conference leaders also saw a larger and sinister design in withdrawing the support to PDP led Government in Jammu and Kashmir last year, months ahead of the scheduled Lok Sabha elections, saying all this drama was enacted to offset the growing criticism within BJP core constituency across the country over, what they comprehended, aligning with an anti-national party. “By adopting this modus operandi, the PDP and BJP were actually complementing and supplementing each other in their respective constituencies by taking ‘North Pole South Pole’ posturing,” they said and condemned the PDP’s politics of deceit and deception.
“The PDP is playing villain to the people, who are determined to uphold their special and unique identity, irrespective of regional and religious affiliations”, NC leaders said and termed the PDP’s so-called extreme posturing in the Valley as well-played role of a smart storyline scripted in Nagpur with sinister motivation of facilitating BJP victory in the backdrop of Kashmir locale, making it a theatre of cross border conflict.
Besides provincial president Devender Singh Rana, the signatories to the joint statement included Surjeet Singh Slathia, Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Rattan Lal Gupta, Th Rachpal Singh, Th Kashmira Singh, Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardhy, Sheikh Abdul Rehman, Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Shah Bukhari, S Harbans Singh, Abdul Gani Malik, S Trilochan Singh Wazir, Vijay Bakaya, Ajaz Jan, B R Kundal, Qazi Jalal-ud-Din, Sheikh Bashir, Haji Mohammed Hussain, Dr Kamal Arora, Vijay Laxmi Dutta, Satwant Kour Dogra, Mohd Aslam Khan, Ch Liaqat Ali, Jagjeevan Lal, Dr Chaman Lal, Dr Gagan Bhagat, Bimla Luthra, Deepender Kour, Swaran Lata, Mehboob Iqbal, Issrar Khan, Vijay Lochan, Abdul Gani Teli, Romy Khajuria, Ajit Kumar Sharma and others.
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