Peoples Conference Chairman and MLA Sajad Lone on Monday hit out at the National conference over Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s speech in J&K Assembly, accusing it of ideological overlap with the BJP.
Lone said the LG’s address was “indistinguishable from a possible BJP speech, had they been in power”.
“No mention not even remotely of Article 370, Article 35 A. No mention of 5 August 2019. No mention of reorganisation Act. Seems the NC government has finally done away even with ornamentalism. They don’t even want to pretend that have anything to do with Article 370,” Lone said in a post on X.
Lone said that during the assembly elections campaigning, the National Conference’s campaign was about Article 370 and accusing all other parties of being BJP’s teams.
“What a comedown! And if this address was a vision statement of the government, it is as vision-less as it can get. It is a generalised departmental statement without any new political, social or economic initiative,” he said.
He said that like in the past the administration will be run by bureaucrats with little political contribution.
“Same beaten track. The bureaucrats ran the last administration. The bureaucrats will run this administration. The political contribution to governance is all set to be non existent,” Lone added.
