National Conference working president Omar Abdullah today criticised the ruling PDP, saying the party’s “mask has fallen” after Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s “confession” about RSS feedback.
“Earlier I sounded an alarm that the PDP had surrendered political and institutional sanctity of the Chief Minister’s office to the RSS. Today the PDP patron and Chief Minister himself confessed that he trusted Narendra Modi because the Prime Minister got his feedback from the RSS,” Omar said in a statement.
The former Chief Minister said Mufti’s statement was “clearly an unambiguous coming out of the closet for the PDP and now the people of J&K have been formally informed of the long-standing nexus between the PDP and the RSS”.
“The mask has fallen, and how. Never has it been clearer that the PDP is a party devoid of ideological compulsions and bearings. We should at least congratulate Mufti for coming out of the closet and admitting to having sold the PDP to the RSS, all political slogans included,” Omar said.
He criticised the PDP for shunning the demand for dual currency, new trade routes, return of power projects, revocation of AFSPA and battle of ideas slogan.
“To add insult to injury of its deafening silence, the Mufti government is out to break all records of intolerance and authoritarianism,” he said.
Omar expressed disappointment over the Chief Minister’s statement that he had never “specifically asked for a package for Kashmir”. Omar said it was “yet another sad confession of insensitivity” towards flood victims of the state.
“While it must be in the personal political interests of Mufti and Mehbooba Mufti for the Chief Minister to eulogise and admire the Prime Minister as an indispensable and unparalleled leader, one must remind Mufti that the ‘Agenda of Alliance’ has been torn to shreds by the BJP under supervision of the Prime Minister,” Omar said.
