NC’ Struggle to protect interests, dignity of J&K People to continue unabated: Omar To Workers In Election Road Shows

Srinagar: Vice President J&K National Conference Omar Abdullah on Thursday said that the party’s struggle to protect the interests, unique character and dignity of people of J&K will continue unabatedly.
Addressing back to back election rallies in Sumbal Sonawari and Inderkote Bandipore organised by Incharge Constituencies Sonawari and Bandipora Hilal Akbar Lone and Adv Nazir Malik respectively.Earlier, Omar led a road show in Sumbal, in which thousands of people participated and expressed their love and affection towards him. Omar Abdullah received a warm welcome at every place. Exhorting people to divest anti Kashmir forces of their false robes, Omar said, “We have started a peaceful and democratic struggle for the restoration of our democratic rights in the same manner as was started by my grandfather Sheikh Sahib. We were sold as cattle. One king used to sell us and another king bought us, the people here had no right to land, no right to employment, no right to air and no right to water, then a person named Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was born on this land, who was a teacher by profession and broke the chains of slavery. He started a movement against injustice and brought true freedom to this oppressed and subjugated nation, but today we are being pushed towards the same economic and political slavery and today it is the duty of every conscious and sensitive citizen to protect this historical state. Everyone has the duty to play their role to save J&K.”
Continuing his address, Omar Abdullah said, “J&K National Conference has never changed its position, we are still doing what we said 35 years ago. We said 35 years ago that guns are not the solution to any problem and we repeat the same thing today. Thanks be to Allah, Jamaat-e-Islami has announced that if the ban on the Jamaat is lifted, they will participate in the elections, I welcome it and hope that the ban on them is lifted immediately. The sooner they enter the field, the sooner they field their candidates, the better. We have been saying since the first day that nothing will change with guns and stone pelting, nothing will change with bad conditions, if something changes then we have to use our vote to change our future.”