Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 8: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today alleged that former Chief Minister and vice president of National Conference (NC), Omar Abdullah is so shattered by the imminent danger of being swept away in the forthcoming elections that he has resorted to making inflammatory statements meant at polarizing the society. The behaviour of Omar and many other senior leaders of NC is not very surprising since communal and divisive politics has been the hallmark of NC ever since its inception stated Brig(retd) Anil Gupta, State spokesperson of BJP in a handout here, today while reacting to recent statement of former Chief Minister.
Some of the recent statements of Omar Abdullah like “why Third Front is being formed only in Kashmir not in Ladakh and Jammu” or “when Indians don’t accept Kashmiris then how can they expect Kashmiris will say they are an integral part of India” or his tweet blaming BJP for the assault on Kashmiri dry fruit sellers in Lucknow are part of a well-orchestrated campaign to create further alienation among the different communities in the State in order to revive the sinking electoral fortunes of NC asserted Brig Gupta.
“Why Omar is mortally scared of the emergence of alternative political forces in Kashmir? He is well aware that the days when his party could befool the people through hollow and false promises are gone. Kashmiris have understood the opportunistic politics of NC and are determined to wipe out the party in the forthcoming elections. The people of Kashmir are eagerly looking for alternatives which the Third Front provides and that is the reason of Omar’s annoyance over emergence of Third Front in Kashmir clarified Brig Gupta.
He said as far as Jammu and Ladakh are concerned they have their own political dynamics and Omar must leave it to the people of these regions to decide.
Brig Gupta blamed Omar for jumping the gun by blaming BJP for the assault on Kashmiri dry fruit sellers in Lucknow. Mere wearing of Saffron clothes does not imply that the accused belong to BJP. There are many inimical political forces within the country who are desperate to arouse communal passions in run up to the forthcoming elections in order to malign BJP and they can go to any extent to achieve their objective, he added.
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