SRINAGAR: National Conference Wednesday said that it should be amply clear that NC’s offer to PDP was an offer of Outside Support for PDP to form the Government in J&K and that National Conference was not interested in being a part of such a Government with PDP in the State.
Terming PDP Chief Spokesperson Naeem Akhtar’s remarks as misinformed and unfounded, National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar said that unlike PDP, National Conference has put its ideology and the State’s Special Status above the petty trappings of power by not aligning with BJP.
Sagar said, that if they were interested in being part of a Government in J&K, they could have aligned with the BJP as it was an option readily available to NC after the election results came out. But unlike PDP, we are governed by the guiding principles and a political ideology that is rooted in the aspirations and sentiments of our people. We have put our ideology over the lure of power, something that quite understandably seems inconceivable for a party like the PDP which is ready to make every possible compromise and u-turn to come to power in the State.
Senior NC leader further claimed that the PDP wants to come to power at any cost, even if that means contradicting everything PDP leaders said during the campaign for the Assembly Elections.
The NC General Secretary rubbished PDP’s claim that National Conference had been punished or sidelined by the people. “A party that only got 60,000 more votes than us collectively in the State can hardly make that claim with a straight face. PDP tried its best to accentuate a propaganda of an alleged ‘PDP wave’, which clearly turned out to be a farce as the results demonstrated.
“We understand that the PDP clearly owes a debt to the BJP since it was the BJP that funded and supported the creation of the PDP with a view at dividing the people of Kashmir and fragmenting their representative voice, Sagar claimed.
Similarly the BJP owns promoter’s equity in the PDP for having funded the creation of PDP. NC had hoped that PDP would forge a coming together of the two regional parties in the larger interest of the State but we recognize their compulsions due to the debt they owe to the BJP. It would now be better for the PDP to be honest with the people rather than trying to cloak their deceit behind some smokescreen of a moral high ground”, the NC General Secretary added.
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