Feeling the heat after rebel parliamentarian Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi announced he’d resign as MP and National Conference member, the party seems in damage control mode.
Former minister and current MLA representing the Khanyar Assembly constituency, Ali Mohammad Sagar, has said that “conspiracies and sinister designs” will be defeated by the party and its voters.
As the party’s general secretary, Sagar claimed that attempts were being made to “weaken the National Conference”, but they would “never succeeded because of the trust and bond the party shares with the voters.”
According to a statement issued by the JKNC, Sagar addressed a meeting at the party’s Srinagar headquarters Nawa-e-Subah in which he said the National Conference was not merely a political party, but “a movement born out of the struggles and sacrifices of the people of Jammu and Kashmir”.
“Those who have tried to weaken the National Conference have failed time and again. Every such conspiracy has been defeated,” MLA Sagar said.
Sagar, as per the JKNC statement, further said that “the National Conference has never treated power as an end in itself, but as an opportunity to serve the people.”
Though his party president vice president do not mention Articles 370 and 35(A), Sagar made a reference to both while reiterating that “their restoration remains an important priority for the party.”
According to Sagar, the National Conference would continue its “democratic and constitutional struggle for the restoration of the political and constitutional rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
The NC’s spokespersons, Tanvir Sadiq and Imran Nabi Dar, have maintained that the party doesn’t believe in “street agitation” and won’t encourage people to hit the streets while Omar Abdullah, as Chief Minister, keeps repeating that “those who snatched Article 370 from us won’t give it back to us.”
The National Conference is sending confusing messages in the public domain.
