Two main constituents of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) organised a meeting of party workers in Jammu ahead of holding a formal meeting in Jammu on Saturday.
Both Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah addressed a meeting of party workers here at their party headquarters in the old city area of Jammu while PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti addressed a small gathering inside heavily guarded party office in Gandhi Nagar.
Due to recent incidents of flag hoisting outside the PDP headquarters in Jammu thick posse of security personnel were deployed and concertina wires were spread to prevent entry of outsiders in the secured zone.
In their separate speeches, Kashmir based leaders targeted the Centre government and warned the people of the region not to fall prey to their false propaganda against Kashmir based regional parties.
Addressing party workers National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah said, he won't die until constitutional rights of the people of the erstwhile state are restored.
The National Conference (NC) president also assailed the BJP for “misleading the country” and making “false promises” to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well as those in Ladakh.
“I will not die until the rights of my people are given back.... I am here to do something for the people and the day I will finish my work, I will leave this world”. Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said an impression has been created with the help of the section of media that we are a Kashmir based party. He said in reality we are the only party with its roots in all Jammu,Kashmir and Ladakh.
Launching a scathing attack against the centre, the PDP Chief said the Government of India will regret scrapping Article 370 and that one day they will restore the special status of the erstwhile state.
“Time will come when they will restore not only Art 370 and 35A, but they will also ask the people of J&K what else they want from us (GoI) besides special status”.
Raising the issue of protection of land rights and jobs to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti said that a time will come when Dogras and Kashmiris will become rare in J&K. “Now they claim to end unemployment in J&K whereas Haryana State has passed a law reserving 75 percent jobs for locals like in Madhya Pradesh. A situation will come when Dogras will become rare in Jammu and Kashmir.”
