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| NC patriarch shuns pro-China rhetoric, says JK people happy with India | | Ahead of DDC polls, Farooq finally looks tamed | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Nov 6: Days after the DDC polls in Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir were announced by the central government, NC patriarch Dr Farooq Abdullah has kept the China praising and Pakistan rhetoric behind, declaring that the people of the erstwhile state want to remain with the Union of India.
“If Jammu and Kashmir wanted to go to Pakistan, they would have done so in 1947. No one could have stopped it,” Abdullah said while speaking to reporters here.
The statement carries significance as Abdullah is the head of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration whose vice President Mehbooba Mufti last month said that they wouldn’t be holding tri- colour until the state flag is not returned to the people. The statement was ruthlessly seditious and akin to ridiculing the country’s core principles. Farooq Abdullah on the other hand also was quite vocal in terms of praising China. He even went to the extent of stating in an interview that people of Jammu and Kashmir were ready to go with China instead of any other option. He even stated that with China’s help, it is very much possible that Article 370 could be restored.
“The statement is very important as it reveals how drastically, NC seems to have shifted its policy and its goalposts. The statement is akin to extending the olive branch to the government, hinting that it is possible for the party to enter into some mode of truce. It is yet to be seen whether NC directly or through proxies would jump into the BDC polls,” says a senior party functionary.
Meanwhile, what is interesting is that the skeletons are getting tumbled out of the political closets and how the parties have been taking the common masses for ride while showing their one face to them and another to the people inside the power corridors.
The story goes back to the year 2018 when ULB polls were held in Jammu and Kashmir. It is even being informed that the national conference that upped the ante against the conduction of the ULB polls in the state, asking people to boycott them had fielded its proxy candidates and now when the time came, the benefits were being reaped to the core. In midst of all this highly enacted drama, the masses were made to suffer in such a sadistic way that one wonders whether the parties were real representatives of the downtrodden or were sadistically befooling them en-masse.
Will NC repeat its ULB poll strategy this time as well? The situation seems tricky and strewn with fiasco.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu, State Election Commissioner announced recently that first ever elections for the DDC’s will be held from November 28 in phases which will conclude on December 22. Polling, as per the government, will take place through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) while postal ballots will be available for Covid-19 patients in isolation, senior citizens and physically unwell patients. |
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