JD(U) announces its first candidate for LS polls in Kashmir
Srinagar : Janata Dal United JD(U) state president G M Shaheen on Friday announced Lok Sabha candidate for central Kashmir’s Ganderbal.
Addressing a press conference here at party’s Rajbagh headquarters, Shaheen announced that Shoukat Hussain Khan would be the JD(U)’s candidate for Ganderbal.
He said the alliance between the National Conference and Congress is “not only opportunistic but a mere eyewash as well”.
He said with NC contesting all the three seats in Kashmir, the party’s attitude towards people is “obvious”.
“Congress’s surrender implies acceptance of greater autonomy pushing the state back to pre-1953 and division of Jammu region on religious lines promoting Greater Kashmir,” Shaheen said.
He said Congress-NC combine will put an end to “anti-terror” operations and revive the “overground terror support network”.
People of J&K will do a great disservice to their future generations if they vote for the “communal and divisive agenda” of the NC-Congress alliance, he said.
“It would not be surprising if the PDP also joins hand to further marginalise the voice of people and their fundamental rights since independence,” JD(U) state president rued.
Reminding the people of J&K about Rajiv-Farooq accord, Shaheen said: “Both NC and Congress had cheated the people of J&K for their vested interests to remain in power and ruined their sentiments.”
He termed the Muslim United Front (MUF) that contested the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, 1987, as a “polyglot coalition” of Islamic Kashmiri political parties. (GNS)
