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PAGD Will Fight J&K Assembly Elections Together, Says Farooq Abdullah

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Former CM and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a coalition of political parties in Jammu and Kashmir seeking the restoration of Article 370 abrogated in 2019, will contest the Assembly elections in state together. On the sidelines of an event in Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah answered a media question about the strategy of the PAGD for the polls, and said: “Yes, we will contest together, we won’t fight alone (on an individual party basis).”

Those who left the PAGD “were never part of it as they had joined the alliance with the intention of breaking the alliance”, Mr Abdullah further added. He stressed that the environment was conducive for the elections and appealed to the people to be patient. “A time will come when Allah Almighty will help the people to get out of the current situation. We want peace. We want to move forward with peace. We want animosity to end. Only through love will the country develop and diversity needs to be protected,” the former CM said.

Farooq Abdullah, speaking on the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, said that Kashmiris have always helped and supported the peaceful conduct of the Yatra. “It was a local Muslim from Anantnag, who discovered the Lingam and reported it to the Pandits. Muslims have never raised a finger against the religion of others,” he said. Slamming the communal tensions across the country, Mr Abdullah said: “If this country wants to develop, diversity has to be protected. This is a culturally and linguistically diverse country”.

 

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After uproar over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) alleged link with captured Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Talib Hussain, the saffron party has now distanced itself from him and denied that he had ever been a member of the party’s Jammu and Kashmir unit.

Along with another LeT militant, Talib Hussain was arrested in Reasi district on Sunday. Soon after his arrest, allegations surfaced that Talib was member of the saffron party and in fact headed the IT cell of the BJP’s Minority Morcha in Jammu.

The BJP had initially argued that Talib had resigned from the BJP in May this year after being a member for only 18 days. However, J&K BJP Chief Ravinder Raina has now said that Talib was never directly associated with the party in any capacity.

“Talib Hussain wasn’t even a member of the BJP. He used to visit BJP office in the garb of journalist,” Raina was quoted as saying by India Today.

The J&K BJP Chief also alleged that top BJP leaders and office-holders were on Hussain’s hit-list, seeking a probe by central anti-terror agency NIA.

“Talib Hussain did recce of my office. He sent videos of my office to his Pakistani handlers. He used to meet BJP leaders by posing as a journalist. We demand NIA probe,” Raina said.

Minority Morcha Chief Sheikh Bashir has been issued a show-cause notice by the party, and he’s been asked to  reply within 48 hours, Rain said. “He [Bashir]doesn’t have the authority to make any appointment. Every appointment in the party is made by the President,” Raina added.

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