Jammu: Nationwide Meeting (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah challenged Democratic Progressive Azad Get together (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday, April 15, to contest the future Lok Sabha polls in opposition to him, as an alternative of “hiding at the rear of a camera” and generating statements concentrating on his party.
Abdullah, a previous Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, is contesting the election from north Kashmir’s Baramulla parliamentary constituency. He is currently on a four-working day tour of the Chenab Valley location to garner support for INDIA bloc candidate Choudhary Lal Singh.
The Chenab valley, comprising the Doda, Kishtwar, and Ramban districts, is an area in which Azad has significant impact. It also forms part of the Udhampur parliamentary constituency, which is going to polls on April 19.
Azad, also a former Jammu and Kashmir main minister, was named as the DPAP candidate from the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat but he subsequently explained he was not guaranteed about his candidature as he was not consulted by the occasion about it.
“I problem him (Azad) to contest (the polls) from me to examination his power. Hiding at the rear of a camera and offering statements (against the NC) is really uncomplicated. If he is a gentleman, permit him combat against me. I will see how many votes he will get,” Abdullah advised reporters on the sidelines of his roadshow in the Thathri space of Doda district.
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Braving inclement temperature, the NC leader carried on with his roadshow in support of Lal Singh, who is contesting the polls on a Congress ticket towards Union minister Jitendra Singh.
Requested about Azad’s onslaught against the NC in his election rallies, Abdullah claimed that he is doing so at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP).
“We did not converse in opposition to Azad (immediately after he left the Congress and floated his social gathering in 2022) until he started out targeting NC president Farooq Abdullah. We considered him as our friend but he turned out to be a mate of the BJP,” he claimed, including, “It is Azad’s compulsion to goal the NC as he simply cannot concentrate on the BJP.”
Earlier, addressing a accumulating from atop a vehicle irrespective of rains, the NC chief said his tour of the Chenab valley is intended to warning people today about the floor circumstance and the conspiracies to divide their votes and weaken their voice.
“The celebration with a bucket symbol (DPAP) is not below to profit you and take care of your troubles. It has joined the (poll) contest to advantage the BJP, which revoked Short article 370 of the Structure, bifurcated the erstwhile point out into Union territories (on August 5, 2019) and manufactured hollow guarantees to us,” he claimed.
Abdullah reported this was the very first time in the heritage of the place that a condition was downgraded to a Union Territory. “What has modified (just after August 5, 2019)? They made big claims and accused us of staying an impediment in the advancement of the location.”
The NC leader stated they are compelled to question about the promised industrialisation, opening of new factories, employment for children, and significant enhancement.
He slammed the BJP for its “failure” to ensure work for locals in below-building electrical power tasks and said the administration has resolved to lease out electrical energy from the Rattle Hydro Electrical Power Company Restricted, a joint undertaking in between the NHPC and the Jammu and Kashmir Condition Ability Enhancement Company, to Rajasthan for 40 years even as “our villages experience important electrical power cuts”.
“This is the exact electrical power project that gave the BJP Rs 600 crore in the kind of electoral bonds,” the NC chief reported.
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