STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Giving a hard hitting rejoinder to irresponsible statement of National Conference President Dr Farooq Abdullah insulting Tricolour, Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta said that NC leader’s remark against the Tiranga is unacceptable and shows his anti-national tendencies to the hilt.
Speaking at the sidelines of a three-day orientation programme at Patnitop, Kavinder said that the government should take cognizance of the anti-national stance taken by the head of a political party because such gross misconduct cannot be allowed to go scot-free.
The senior BJP leader said that such kind of politically immature behaviour by a senior leader of one of the mainstream political parties shows how restless he has become after looking at the positive change in the political scenario in Kashmir under the prudent dispensation led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Kavinder said that stone pelting, strikes and shutdowns have become the things of the past and people are now looking for business opportunities, jobs and peace thus making the politicians like Farooq and his ilk confused and battered and such irresponsible statements are the testimony to the fact that the pleasant change in Valley is not going down well in the eyes of such dynastic rulers who were running their shops under the shadow of death, destruction and miseries of the people. He said that the scale of development in the UT of J&K is unprecedented and this is also irking the political class in Valley including Dr Farooq thus leading to unacceptable behaviour.
The former Deputy Chief Minister said that more and more people in J&K especially the Valley are reposing faith in nationalistic policies of the Modi government thus putting the very existence of NC and other Kashmir-based parties into deep crisis forcing their leaders to again go for anti-national stance like the case of Dr farooq Abdullah, who openly insulted Tiranga.
Kavinder said that NC has lost relevance and that is the reason it has opted to contest Assembly polls under the ambit of PAGD. “The decision of Farooq over PAGD shows the restlessness of the party with regard to the upcoming elections in J&K”, he added.
