SRINAGAR: National Conference today said BJP was shocked and unnerved by the support people of Kashmir had extended to PAGD candidates in the ongoing DDC elections and had tasked its coterie in administration and other spheres to create hurdles for the Alliance candidates.
Stating that the District Development Council (DDC) elections were proving unsuccessful to blunt the demand of people for restoration of Articles 370, 35 A guaranteed to J&K by the Constitution of India, Party general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar said the “experiment” had failed as the people were not allowing any space to divisive forces to meet that end.
He made these comments at a public meeting while seeking support for the PAGD candidate at Behibagh, Kulgam. Sagar said the main agenda behind conducting the DDC elections was to dilute the aspirations of the people, however, he said the local Government cannot be a substitute to what was spitefully snatched on the 5th of August, 2019 from us.
“The entire exercise meant to wrong-foot the people proved abortive, as the people are out and out supporting PAGD candidates in these elections also. Unnerved by the immense support the PAGD is getting across J&K, the ruling BJP at the center and its local minions and stooges having administration at their side, is going to great lengths to impede the public outreach of PAGD leaders by employing various methods as are unheard of in an emancipated world,” he said.
Party’s provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani said that the people of J&K are not willing to trade off their self respect with anything and by supporting the PAGD candidates the people are emphatically asserting their aspirations.
“Incensed by the massive public support across J&K for PAGD notwithstanding unwarranted pulls and pressures, the ruling BJP has gone into a tizzy. The frustration is visible in their statements, which are base and bereft of any plot,” he said.
Nasir said the PAGD would not allow the sacred space of Democracy in the form of DDC to be employed by BJP and its ilk to sell false narratives nationally and globally.
He said that people being well aware of the real nefarious designs of the Nagpur Squad are voting in favor of Dr Farooq Abdullah led PAGD.
