Alliance with Congress requirement of the hour: Farooq Abdullah

Srinagar: National Conference head of state Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday claimed his event’s partnership with the Congress was not an obsession yet the requirement of the hour for growth of Jammu and Kashmir and reconstruction of statehood to the union region.

The previous principal preacher likewise claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s browse through to the Union region was an add the faces of those that would certainly brand name mainstream leaders of Jammu and Kashmir as Pakistanis or Khalistanis.

“It is not a compulsion. It is the need of the hour. We want to take everyone along for the development of Jammu and Kashmir,” Abdullah informed press reporters while leaving his home to participate in the political election rally to be resolved by Rahul Gandhi in south Kashmir.

The NC head of state was replying to a concern if developing a partnership with the Congress was an obsession for his event.

“He (Rahul) is a big voice for our nation. It is a slap on the face of those who accused us of being Pakistanis or Khalistanis. I hope people of the country understand that we want the state (Jammu and Kashmir) to come out of this difficult period and develop. I have seen for the first time that a state has been downgraded to a union territory. This has to change and full statehood has to be restored … that is what we are trying,” he included.

In feedback to a concern, Abdullah claimed the National Conference did not experience attrition of leaders like various other events in advance of the setting up surveys as individuals have actually know that his event remains in a setting to do something great.

Abdullah declined to talk about declarations made by PDP principal Mehbooba Mufti versus the National Conference, claiming “she keeps on saying different things”.