Former chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that the BJP and its subsidiary parties have united against the National Conference as the party has not accepted the actions of August 5, 2019.
“The upcoming general election provides us an opportunity to show our rejection of the Government of India’s August 5, 2019 actions,” National Conference Vice President Omar said while addressing party workers at Budgam on Wednesday.
Omar said the reason why the BJP and its subsidiary parties here have united against the NC is because JKNC has not accepted the actions of August 5, 2019. He said,
“These strange bedfellows were forced to club together despite their differences, even though there is nothing in common between them,” he said.
He said they don’t look into each other’s eyes. Yet they were forced to club against us, he said.
Omar said this is not the first time; New Delhi is pitching parties against us. We have outlived such situations successfully in the past as well. He said the 1977 elections witnessed how New Delhi propped up a massive alliance of politicians, religious leaders, and other organisations against us. But people outright rejected them.
“Today, people are also with us, and as long as we have people’s support, no power on earth can harm us,” he added.
He said the National Conference will come up with a road map to address mounting public woes in the upcoming Assembly elections, which are held in August and September later this year.
“We will come up with a manifesto to ease administrative discomfort, address soaring unemployment, and skyrocketing electricity bills during the run-up to assembly elections,” Omar said, adding, “This time it’s about making our stance clear to powers in Delhi and the world that we didn’t approve of the decisions of August 2019.”
