Srinagar, Apr 22 (UNI) Apni Party led by Altaf Bukhari on Monday announced unconditional support to Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Lone from Baramulla Parliamentary seat.
Lone had urged Bukhari on Saturday to extend support and defeat the National Conference from the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency.
Sajad Lone is contesting from Baramulla Parliamentary seat against the National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah.
Addressing a press conference, Bukhari announced unconditional support to the PC chairman Lone in Srinagar on Monday.
“Apni Party has decided to support Sajad Lone who is presenting new politics and I urge the people to vote Apni Party and its alliance partners during the parliament election”, Bukhari said and added “I assure the people of Jammu and Kashmir that nobody will be deceived”.
Spread over 18 assembly segments, the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat would be one of the keenly watched contests as electoral dynamics in the constituency have changed after delimitation.
“I urge people that there is a need to change the traditional and emotional politics in Kashmir valley. I believe somewhere we are also responsible for what happened on August 5, 2019. if we forget the past 70 years of wanderer politics but nobody can forget what happened in the last 5 years in the role of political leaders in Jammu and Kashmir”, Bukhari said.
He said the government of India abrogated Article 370 by which the jobs of our youth were directly affected as these were to share with the other aspirants of India. There was land row as no outsider could purchase the land here so that the cultural and regional identity could be integrated.
“I met the PM and HM in daylight and brought the protection of jobs and land without asking people for any vote”, he said adding “we are not power hungry. But the traditional politicians played an abusive role with the people even during these past five years”.
He said people have sent three National Conference members to the Parliament during these five years. But on August 5, 2019 when the article 370 was abrogated there were five members –three NC and two PDP--from Jammu and Kashmir, no one resigned. “If they could have resigned at that time, maybe the need to float the Apni Party could not have arisen”, he remarked.
“If they could have resigned, a message could have been sent to the world that members from Jammu and Kashmir in Indian Parliament are protesting against the abrogation of special status' ', he said.
“I suggest the traditional political leaders retire and let the people live peacefully”, Bukhari said and appealed “don’t put in the minds of youth that we have to fight 100 years of war”.
The AP President said “people don’t have to fight a war…our destiny has been decided in 1947 to live with India. I will repeatedly say that Delhi has caused us injuries and they will also provide treatment and the treatment neither we will get in London nor in Washington or Islamabad”, he added.
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