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Srinagar: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday warned those party members who are working against its interests, saying discipline is the most important thing and such people will not be allowed to remain in the organisation.
Ex-legislator Jabbar expelled from BJP for 6 yrs
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) on Tuesday expelled former legislator Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar from the party for six years for indulging in anti-party activities.
Jabbar, who was an MLA from the Ganderbal Assembly segment from 2014 till it was dissolved in 2018, was also the party’s district president for Ganderbal in central Kashmir. In a tweet, the party said the order to remove Jabbar was issued by NC’s general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar.
“Shri Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Ex MLA R/O Ganderbal has been removed from the basic membership of JKNC for 6 years in view of his anti-party activities and causing indiscipline. The order has been issued by the General Secretary JKNC,” the NC said in a tweet.
In the past, Jabbar has openly revolted against the party leadership, particularly, after not being elected as the district president for the second term.
Earlier in the day, at a party function in Ganderbal, NC president Farooq Abdullah had hinted that the party will issue an order removing Jabbar from the party.
He said anti-party activities will not be tolerated and those indulging in such activities and indiscipline, would be thrown out of the party.
“The party has decided that those who work against it will not be allowed to remain in it. An order will be issued to this effect soon. We will not allow such a person to remain in the party who tries to divide it,” Abdullah said while speaking at an NC function in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir.
The NC president said the most important thing for the party is discipline and unity. “Farooq Abdullah is nothing without the party. If people look at me across the world, it is because I have the ‘plough’ (the NC’s party symbol) with me, the party is with me. The day the party is not with me, I am no one. All of us are here because of the party,” he said. The NC has witnessed infighting in Ganderbal, with its former district president and former MLA Ishfaq Jabbar openly revolting against the party leadership.