Banihal, June 30: National Conference (NC) leader and district president, Ramban Sajjad Shaheen on Sunday said his party will form the next government in Jammu and Kashmir.
“NC will return to power in Jammu and Kashmir and form the next government on its own by the overwhelming support of people,” he said while speaking at a day-long workers’ convention held at his residence in Banihal.
The convention was attended by a large number of party office bearers of district, block, Panchayats, delegates, former sarpanches, panches and prominent office bearers of Banihal constituency, Shaheen said in a statement, adding that the participants accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its “proxies” of having the agenda of “grabbing power to realise their hidden plan to further weaken the state’s socio-political status”.
He alleged, “All unscrupulous elements and exploiters have come together to exploit the people and carry forward the hidden and anti-Kashmir agenda by all means.”
“History is repeating the situation that prevailed in 1977 when all power-hungry elements and enemies of the National Conference joined hands against the late Sher-e-Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, and left no stone unturned to damage the National Conference. People, by their overwhelming support, made its detractors bite the dust in 1977,” he said.
Shaheen said that ever since the National Conference brought the autonomy resolution in the J&K assembly in 2000, attempts were on to “suppress” the voice of the people. “The creation of the proxies served the same purpose,” he said.
Sajjad further said that Sheikh Abdullah had “foreseen this long back”. “Just before his death, he had predicted that new leaders and parties will be created in every nook and corner of Kashmir. Today, we are witnessing the same,” he said.
He urged the party cadres to gear up for the upcoming assembly elections and work tirelessly to strengthen the party at the grassroots level so that the National Conference could emerge victorious.
Meanwhile, the NC leader said that a large number of political activists from various political parties including a forest Range Officer and dozens of prominent political workers joined the party and resolved to strengthen it at the grassroots level.
