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| Out-of-power Omar again offers support to PDP | | Against coalition with pro-Kashmir BJP | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 6: The out-of-power and radicalized working president of the comprehensively defeated NC Omar Abdullah is feeling restless. He is dying for a share in the Government. He had offered unconditional support to the PDP immediately after the election results were out, but the patron of PDP Mufti Mohammad Sayeed rejected the offer. He preferred the BJP. Even after it became clear that the PDP had clinched a pro-Kashmir power-sharing deal with the BJP, Omar Abdullah offered his party's support to the PDP, saying the alliance between the PDP and the BJP was not acceptable to Kashmir, as the BJP was a communal and anti-Muslim outfit.
On Saturday, Omar Abdullah against reiterated his party's support to the PDP without saying so in so many words. Attacking the Chief Minister for what he called the rise of "hate attacks" on Muslims in different parts of Jammu province and charging him with "bartering everything" to save his chair. Omar Abdullah reminded Mufti Sayeed of his offer of support to him for the formation of "secular" Government in the State.
"Our Chief Minister (Sayeed) has bartered everything to save his chair. The Chief Minister is directly responsible for the attacks which have taken place in Rajouri, Udhampur or elsewhere in the State," Omar told reporters after paying tributes to his grandfather and National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah on his 110th birth anniversary. He added that he had extended support to PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed for forming the Government in the wake of the hung assembly to keep such elements out of the State.
"When the election results were declared, National Conference extended a hand of friendship towards Mufti Mohamamd Sayeed with the intention of keeping such forces out of the State who only want to set the State on fire. We had an apprehension that allowing the BJP and particularly the RSS into the State would be fraught with dangers. Unfortunately, our apprehensions have been proved correct in the nine months (of PDP-BJP Government)," he was quoted as saying. He also alleged "while large scale arrests were being made in Kashmir, these people (RSS) are holding armed rallies in Jammu and no one says anything".
He and his defeated father Farooq Abdullah, who has unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign for Pakistan and virtually describing the Indian Army as occupying forces, also took the opportunity to demand greater autonomy for the State and expressed the view that the visit of Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj to Pakistan will help to create a situation that results in the resumption of the stalled Indo-Pak dialogue process. Both Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah behaved as if they were the Pakistani mouthpieces. Farooq Abdullah, in addition, again reiterated that PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan are parts of Pakistan and will remain so and questioned the ability and capacity of the Indian Army to take back from Pakistan the illegally-occupied territories. Farooq Abdullah also batted for an "irrelevant" Line of Control and "free travel and trade" between the two sides of the State.
One thing was more than clear from what they said: They want to return to power in the State at whatever cost and with the support of hostile nation, called the fast-crumbling Pakistan. It is disgusting that the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre has been failing the nation by not acting against the Pakistani agents, who otherwise masquerade as Indians. |
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