Srinagar: Criticizing National Conference president, Dr Farooq Abdullah for his unwarranted remarks about Shrimoni Akali Dal (SAD) the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) youth leader, Dr Shanti Singh has said NC has always exploited the minority communities particularly Sikhs in the state to remain in power.
He said NC has never been serious to resolve the issues, problems of Sikhs besides taking votes from them from last many decades. He said NC is directly or indirectly responsible for many ugly episodes in the state’s recent history which inflicted gravest injuries to the Sikhs of the Valley.
Dr Shanti questioned how SAD has become ‘communal’ now given the fact till yesterday it was a close ally of NC in the state? “SAD has always being supporting NC and it was not communal then. And now when it took the historic step to extend support to PDP, the ruling party has started feeling frustrated,” he added.
Dr Shanti said in 1996 NC has been the ally of BJP which is responsible for the killings of hundreds of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and now they are in the lap of Congress which is responsible for the massacre of thousands of Sikhs in New Delhi in 1984.
“The Congress vice president, Rahul Gandhi even in his recent TV interview agreed about the involvement of few Congress leaders in the killings,” he said and appealed the people particularly the Sikh community to vote for PDP in the forthcoming elections.