PDP emerged as BJP’s creation: Farooq

Mehboob Beg files nomination papers as NC-Congress Coalition Candidate
Srinagar: Senior National Conference (NC) leader and member Parliament Dr. Mehboob Beg Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Anantnag Parliamentary Constituency as the NC-Congress Coalition Candidate. He was accompanied by NC President Dr. Farooq Abdullah, State Congress Chief Professor Saif-ud-din Soz besides Senior Congress Leader Taj Mohiuddin, NC Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani and others.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Farooq Abdullah urged the workers of both parties to work in unison with dedication and cooperation to ensure the victory of the coalition candidates with bigger margins than last time. “These parliamentary elections would see a direct contest between secularism and communal, divisive figures who want to gain power by polarizing the people of this country,” Farooq said, adding that BJP seems to be openly helped by the PDP.
He said that Narendra Modi was an authoritarian politician who had shown grave contempt for his BJP mentors like L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Jaswant Singh and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. “He (Modi) is a man who can disrespect, insult and humiliate his mentors and seniors can never be sympathetic towards the people he dreams to govern,” Abdullah said.
Terming PDP as a creation of BJP, Farooq said the party teamed up with BJP during the Amarnath Land Row in 2008 to divide the people of Jammu and Kashmir along religious lines. “It was PDP whose ministers were responsible for transferring the land in Pahalgam to the Shrine Board. To hide their guilt, they blamed the then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad for their own mischief and sabotaged his government in mid-term. In the following years Mehbooba Mufti’s open and shameful admiration of Narendra Modi proved that 2008 was a combined BJP-PDP covert operation,” he said.
Terming NC-Congress coalition as an ideological association to safeguard the secular fabric of this country, NC president asked the workers to work with each other to keep communal forces and their proxies like PDP at bay. “The present NC-Congress Coalition Government in the State had ushered the State into an era of unprecedented growth, transparency and accountability and had empowered the common-man by bringing governance to his doorstep,” he said.
Dr. Mehboob Beg asked the workers to inform the people about his performance as a Member of Parliament and compare the same to that of Mehbooba Mufti when she was an MP. He said that NC leaders had utilized their MP funds transparently and effectively to the ultimate benefit of their constituents.  
Others who were present on the occasion included leaders of Youth National Conference and National Conference Students Union (NCSU). (GNS)