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Srinagar: Kick starting its bypoll campaign for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, the National Conference (NC) on Saturday accused Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti of working on the “diktats of RSS” and pursuing its policies for power.
“The only aim of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is power and it can go to any extent for this. It is the greed of the power that Mehbooba chose not to speak over anti-Kashmir policies of the Centre.
“The number of pellet guns has been strengthened from 500 to 6000 with six lakh rounds of ammunition but Mehbooba did not utter a word,” former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said addressing a rally at party headquarters here.
The rally, which was also addressed by NC President and party candidate from Srinagar parliamentary constituency, Farooq Abdullah, was organised to kick start the party’s election campaign for the April 9 bypoll. Omar accused Mehbooba of working on the “diktats of RSS” and said “everything is done in the State to please the RSS”.
“Every decision in the Chief Minister’s office is taken at RSS headquarters in Nagpur. She was the one who was protesting against arrests on the streets (while in opposition) but her government arrested 10,000 persons and slapped Public Safety Act against 1000 youth.”
Farooq, in his address, said the upcoming bypoll was a test for the party and the people.
“While on one hand the communal forces have fielded PDP and activated all its machinery to harm the interests of Kashmiris, on the other new ways and means are explored to divide the voice of the people,” he said.
He said the people have to decide whether they will vote for PDP to strengthen RSS or safeguard their interests and aspirations by making National Conference successful.
