Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, Apr 2:The sitting Member Parliament (MP) and senior National Conference leader Dr. Mehboob Beg and Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) State president Muslim Morcha, Malik Mushtaq Noorabadi today filed their nomination papers from Anantnag Parliamentary constituency.
Beg, 64, is sitting MP from Anantnag Parliamentary constituency who defeated People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Peer Hussain, in 2009 elections. Beg is son of former Deputy Chief Minister, Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg.
Dr. Beg was accompanied by National Conference President Dr. Farooq Abdullah, JKPCC president, Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz besides Senior Congress leader Taj Mohi-ud-Din, NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, NC Senior leaders Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan and Sakina Ittoo, Congress Senior leaders Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed and Ghulam Ahmed Mir.
While speaking at a joint rally of NC and Congress workers, Dr Abdullah while targeting the PDP in its bastion of Anantnag said that PDP is a creation of the BJP. He said that it teamed up with the BJP during the Amarnath land row in 2008 to divide the people of Jammu and Kashmir along religious lines.
“It was the PDP whose Ministers were responsible for transferring the land in Pahalgam to the Amarnath Shrine Board. To hide their guilt, they blamed the then Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad for their own mischief and sabotaged his Government in mid-term. This game was played to either communalize the atmosphere in the State at the BJP’s directives or under a conspiracy to dislodge Ghulam Nabi Azad as the Chief Minister”, said the NC president.
Abdullah said: “In the following years Mehbooba Mufti’s open and shameful admiration of Narendra Modi proved that 2008 was a combined BJP-PDP covert operation. It is a known fact that PDP leaders held a series of meetings with BJP leaders in Delhi in 2008 while the Valley was simmering in anger and rage because of PDP’s decision to transfer land to the Shrine Board.”
The NC president said that these Parliamentary elections would see a direct contest between secularism and communal, divisive figures who want to gain power by polarizing the people of this country. “Within the State, the BJP seems to be openly helped by the PDP as it has fielded its candidates in the Jammu province to divide those votes which would understandably be cast against the BJP”, he added.
Abdullah while targeting the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, said that he is an authoritarian politician who has shown grave contempt for his BJP mentors like LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Jaswant Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. “A man who can disrespect, insult and humiliate his mentors and seniors can never be sympathetic towards the people he dreams to govern”, he said.
“It is time to defeat Narendra Modi who is poison for India. I tell the workers of the NC and Congress, it is the question of saving the Nation and saving the country. And she (Mehbooba) is wearing greens to deceive you while on other hand she is in league with Modi. You should remain vigilant as they will try to deceive you”, warned Abdullah.
The NC president said that the NC-Congress coalition is an ideological association to safeguard the secular fabric of this country and asked the workers of the two parties to work with each other to keep communal forces and their proxies like PDP at bay.
Abdullah said that NC leaders had performed very well in the Parliament by showcasing the pain, demands and aspirations of their people unlike Mehbooba Mufti who never said a word in support of her people during her earlier tenure as a MP.
The JKPCC president, Professor Saif-ud-Din Soz, in his address, asked Congress leaders to vigorously campaign for the NC candidates. He asked his workers: “We don’t want to take any chance. We should not be complacent. You should work together with the NC workers for making NC candidates successful. Congress will give full support and vote for NC candidates in Kashmir valley in the same way the NC is helping our candidates in Jammu and Ladakh.”
Soz also announced the Congress Campaign Committee for Kashmir valley. “It will be headed by Peerzada Sayeed with Taj Mohi-ud-Din and Ghulam Ahmad Mir as its members. Ghulam Ahmad Mir is also heading the campaign committee for South Kashmir”, he announced.
The NC candidate Mehboob Beg asked the workers to inform the people about his performance as a Member of Parliament and compare the same to that of Mehbooba Mufti when she was an MP. He said that NC leaders utilized their MP funds transparently and effectively to the ultimate benefit of their constituents. He sought votes from the NC and Congress workers.
The BJP candidate Malik Mushtaq Noorabadi also filed his nomination with the Returning Officer of the Anantnang Constituency, Saugat Biswas, soon after Beg.
While addressing his party workers, Noorababi said that his party will fight against un-employment and work for the development of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. He said that if voted to power, BJP Government at Centre will devise a scheme of monthly assistance of Rs 5000 for all Matriculates in the State, form a scheme to provide Rs 50, 000 to girls as marriage assistance and a monthly assistance of Rs 1000 to people above the age of 60 years. “We will also provide uninterrupted power at minimum rates to the people and fresh drinking water to the people”, he promised.
Mushtaq Noorabadi unsuccessfully fought Assembly election in 2002 and 2008 from Noorabad Constituency. He is BJP’s State President for Muslim Morcha and was All India Secretary Minority Morcha of BJP and In-charge Minorities of BJP for North India.
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