Omar’s secularism noises like ‘devil quoting scriptures’: PDP

Reacting to NC working president Omar Abdullah’s “impetuous” concern for protecting secular ethos, PDP chief spokesperson Naeem Akhtar, in a statement, said where was this secularism talked by the Omar Abdullah when Afzal Guru was picked up from serial number 28 and sent to gallows without giving an opportunity to approach the Supreme Court or meet his family.“Wasn’t that a worst kind of communal card that was played by the Congress with NC being an equal partner in that most blatant denial of human rights as the family of Guru was deprived of a last chance to meet their son,” Akhtar asked.
PDP spokesperson said Omar Abdullah conveniently forgets and also wants people to forget that he made his political debut in alliance with BJP-led NDA and for his junior minister’s job JK was made to sacrifice its most prestigious power projects, ban on Shahtoosh and put a moratorium on the recruitment to government jobs and not only that the NC government was first to extend POTA (then only POTO an ordinance) in the entire country and unleashed all kinds of repression on the people.
“It is the National Conference that conveniently pocketed the insult of its Autonomy resolution being trashed and sent to dust bin without even a murmur or protest,” Akhtar said and added that NC-Congress coalition continued to have support of BJP MLAs in the previous house. “Farooq Abdullah’s election to the Rajya Sabha in 2009 was made possible only with the support of BJP legislators and similarly the party received support of BJP members in the legislative council election which is now a part of the legislative history of the state,” he added.
Akhtar said PDP will continue to focus on the issues that it has always pleaded for and looks at the prospects of making the government only as a means to achieve those objectives which have been clearly spelled out by the party patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on January 25.