BJP slams Farooq Abdullah for ‘promising’ regional autonomy in J&K


Team Udayavani, Dec 22, 2018, 11:14 AM IST

Jammu: The BJP on Friday hit out at National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah over his remarks to grant autonomy to Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir regions if his party comes to power in the state.

Abdullah had on Thursday promised regional autonomy if his party comes to power in Jammu and Kashmir after next year’s assembly election.

“I want to make a promise that God willing if we form the next government, we will bring a resolution to grant autonomy to the three regions (within 30 days),” Abdullah said, as he welcomed expelled BJP leader and former MLA Gagan Bhagat into the National Conference.

“Farooq Abdullah has tried to mislead Jammuites and create confusion and discord in peace-loving people of Jammu belonging to different religious and ethnic groups by promising greater autonomy to Jammu in case National Conference comes to power in next elections,” State Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Spokesperson Sunil Sethi told reporters in Jammu.

“By making such a statement the real face of communal approach of the National Conference has come in open”, he said.

Sethi said that National Conference wants to divide the people of Jammu Province in regional sub-groups to create sub-regions of Muslim majority by creating mistrust and hatred between people who have always lived in complete harmony.

“Jammu is a shining example of all religious and linguistic groups living in complete harmony unlike the intolerant Kashmiri population who forced minority Kashmiri Pandits to migrate,” he said.

National Conference has no political agenda for the state except for blindly falling in line with separatists, including Hurriyat Conference, for petty political gains, he added.

On Gagan Bhagat joining National Conference, he said that it exposes the real face of National Conference.

“It is very clear that Gagan Bhagat had filed petition against assembly dissolution at the asking of National Conference only which is his new master”, he added.

“Gagan Bhagat had been expelled from the BJP not because of his matrimonial dispute, but because he had kept a young girl belonging to a poor family in his house with whom his objectionable pictures and videos came in the media,” Sethi claimed.

“By misusing his position as an MLA, he had created a situation of fear and helplessness for the poor family which was a heinous act as a political worker. In the coming elections National Conference will have to give an answer to the voters for having such a person in the party,” he added.

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