Former Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minster Altaf Bukhari on Saturday challenged senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to prove his allegations against him or otherwise resign from his position in Parliament on moral grounds.
Reacting to media reports wherein Azad has been quoted as saying that some Congress leaders were being threatened to join the “Third Front” or otherwise they would get implicated in some false cases, Bukhari said “it was very unfortunate that a leader like Azad was playing cheap politics”.
“..it is very unfortunate that he has levelled baseless allegations against me and my colleagues by stooping so low for doing petty politics,” the former minister said. Bukhari said he neither held any power nor was in any position to misuse State machinery or agencies “like has been the precedence in the Congress-led regimes in the State”.
He said it was a fact that a number of senior Congress leaders were in touch with him, but there was no question of coercing them or extending any facilities.
He challenged the former Chief Minister to prove his allegations and corroborate his remarks or else quit from the position he holds in Parliament.(TNS)
