Srinagar- National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said the party will never forge an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form the next government in Jammu & Kashmir.
Dr Farooq said that any party that will side with the BJP will “get vanished” in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Who would form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir and who could be the potential chief minister, is something no one can predict well in advance, even in cases where political parties enjoy an absolute majority,” Dr Farooq said.
The NC leader said the people of J&K voted against the BJP, and his party would not form an alliance with a party that has caused suffering to Muslims by demolishing their homes, mosques, schools and businesses and by doing all in its power to persecute them.
When asked whether extending interim bail to AIP chief Er Rashid will be an important factor in government formation in J&K, he said “I don’t see any factor but whoever stand with BJP will shoulder his own coffin sooner or later”
“We are not going to ally with BJP, because the people of J&K voted against them in the just concluded assembly elections. They persecuted Muslims by demolishing their homes, mosques, schools and businesses and by doing all in its power to persecute them,” said the NC leader when asked if BJP could form the next government if the election results threw a ‘fractured mandate’.
“There’s not a single Muslim minister in the NDA government—how many Muslims did they give the mandate for parliamentary elections?” he questioned.
I response to a question about chief ministerial candidate in light of the electioneering by the top Congress leadership, he said “We are jumping the gun let’s first see the results then they will sit down and decide who is going to be the CM and who not”
The three-time former chief minister also said that it would be premature to make assumptions about a potential chief ministerial candidate because the EVMs have not yet opened and the election results have not yet been declared.
“Let me tell you one thing even if you have a full majority, you cannot say who is going to be what and what’s going to happen. I am going to wait till the boxes are open and votes are counted on October 8,” Farooq Abdullah told media here when asked if he was certain that NC will form the next government with a majority.
The NC chief said that Congress will also emerge victorious in the Haryana assembly elections, saying that the people who have borne the brunt” of the present dispensation have decided to vote in favour of Congress.
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