PDP embarrassed Muslims by allying with RSS, says Farooq

Tribune News Service

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Srinagar, April 3

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah today accused the PDP of shaming and embarrassing Muslims by “allying with the RSS in the state.”

Addressing a public meeting in the Kangan Assembly segment, Farooq said the “RSS represents decades of suppression of Muslims and other minorities in the country.”

“By aligning with the RSS, Mehbooba Mufti sold her 2014 mandate and her conscience for power,” Farooq said. “The PDP had shamed and embarrassed Muslims, in general, and Kashmiri Muslims, in particular, by allying with the RSS in the state,” he said.

Farooq said, “both as a Kashmiri and a Muslim, I am disappointed and ashamed that the PDP sold its 2014 mandate and its conscience.” “After selling the PDP to the RSS, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is now trying her best to sell Kashmiris, their rights, dignity and honour to the RSS,” he said.

Farooq, who is contesting the upcoming parliamentary byelection from the Srinagar constituency, also accused the Chief Minister of leaving no single opportunity to heap praise on the RSS, the BJP and the leaders of the Sangh Parivar “who have openly advocated the destruction of minorities.”

“This betrayal is historic and shameful and will have far-reaching consequences for the state if we don’t rise to the occasion and defeat this alliance of opportunism and evil,” he said.

National Conference’s working president Omar Abdullah addressed a separate event in the Beerwah Assembly segment and termed the upcoming byelections “a fight for J&K’s political survival.”

“J&K’s very identity, its flag and its special status was at stake since the day the PDP decided to align with the BJP and the RSS to attain political power in the state,” he said.

Omar said the byelections were not a “usual election.” “The election is about a larger battle of J&K’s political survival where our dignity and honour are at stake,” he said.