PDP responsible for prevalent situation in Kashmir, will stop NIA from intimidating Kashmir: Omar

Kupwara: Former chief minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah blamed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the prevalent situation in Kashmir and said, “ if voted to power his party will ensure the protection special status of the state and will stop NIA from intimidating innocent Kashmiris.”
The sufferings, pain of people, imposition of bans, PSAs and others being faced by Kashmirs is all because of Bhartiya Janta Party and RSS who were welcomed by PDP to the Valley.
Addressing a workers’ convention at Lolab in Kupwara district, Omar claimed that, if NC is voted to power, it will also remove the ban over Jama’at-e-Islami and JKLF on priority besides stopping NIA from intimidating Kashmir.
“The forthcoming elections will be significant because it will decide the recourse of our state vis-a-vis development, youth employment and other issues that our state is facing. The very special character of our state is the overt and covert threats that it is facing. These elections provide us with a good opportunity to send resourceful and capable people to country’s highest House as they can forcefully work for preserving state’s special status,” he said.
“Suppressing their unarmed struggle isn’t the solution; all those lodged in different jails across the Valley or outside will be released soon after NC comes to power,” Omar said.
Omar lashed out at formation of new mainstream parties in Kashmir, stating why only Kashmir is seeing new political parties after every election, why not Jammu and Ladakh provisions.
He said that BJP is acting with dual face and policy, they’re talking quite different in Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir, it is BJP which succeeded in its plan to not hold the Assembly Elections in the state.
Reacting to Ram Madhav’s statement during a press conference in Srinagar, Omar said if BJP isn’t competent to hold assembly elections then they should come clear before public and accept that they have completely failed in this State.
Omar claimed that, at the times whenever National Conference was out of power the special status of valley, 370 and 35-A was tampered, but NC always stood to safeguard it.