Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and working president of Opposition National Conf-erence, Omar Abdullah, has upped the ante agai-nst his political bête noire and present incumbent Mufti Muhammad Sayeed ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit of the restive state.
Mr Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Baglihar-II hydroelectric project on Chenab River near in Ramban district of the State prior to addressing a joint rally of ruling PDP-BJP coalition partners in Srinagar on November 7. He is also expected to announce a slew of measures for the economic uplift of the state’s weaker sections alongwith a handsome package for the displaced Kashmiri Pandits during his visit.
Mr Sayeed has asserted that Mr Modi’s visit will be a turning point in state’s history and that the people of the state have great expectations from it “as the Prime Minister “is a visionary and has his eyes fixed on overall development of J&K.” Taking a jibe at Mr Sayeed, Mr Abdullah said in a tweet: “Mufti Sayeed is right. PM’s 7th Nov Srinagar rally will be historic — for the number of people arrested to make the rally possible”.
He was referring to the major crackdown launc-hed by the police against separatist leaders and activists across the Valley to foil Syed Ali Shah Geelani “Million March” as a parallel show of strength to counter the PM’s public rally here. In another tweet and also in a statement issued here on Monday, the NC leader talks about Mr Sayeed’s “confession” that his “Annual Confidential Reports are signed by the RSS” and said that it has validated the concern of NC that the PDP “has effectively aided in shifting J&K’s power capital to Nagpur”.
Mr Abdullah specifically quotes an excerpt from the CM’s interview to the Times of India where he has stated “The good thing is that on Kashmir, the PM doesn’t just rely on IB reports. He talks to the RSS, gets feedback from them. He sees that Mufti is serious, that my government is working hard. That’s why he’s coming”.
The NC working president said, “Earlier I had sounded an alarm that PDP had surrendered the political and institutional sanctity of the chief minister’s office to the RSS and that the state’s capital for all practical purposes had been shifted to Nagpur. At that time PDP leaders vehemently denied any dilution of authority and control and went on to resort to their usual melodramatic rhetoric to divert attention from their brazen sell-out”.
He added, “Today the PDP patron and the chief minister has himself confessed that he trusts the Prime Minister because he (Mr Modi) gets his ‘feedback’ from the RSS. This is clearly an unambiguous coming-out-of-the-closet for the PDP and now the people of J&K have been formally informed of the longstanding nexus between the PDP and the RSS — which we always called attention to”.
