NC to form next government in JK on its own: Rana
JAMMU: After winning all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir division, National Conference (NC) Thursday asserted it will form the next government in J&K on its own.
Provincial President of the party in Jammu, Devender Singh Rana said that NC’s victory in the Lok Sabha election was a “semi-final to the finals of assembly elections which will witness National Conference forming the government in Jammu and Kashmir on its own”.
Rana was talking to reporters at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan after celebrating the victory with party men at the party’s Provincial Headquarters by bursting crackers and beating drums.
He said Jammu and Ladakh regions too “will witness the party getting maximum number of seats like in Kashmir, leading National Conference to absolute majority”.
“This is the victory of the progressive and forward looking policies of National Conference and inspiring leadership of Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah,” he added.
Rana said that National Conference was a “force to reckon with, which has started bouncing back in full steam”.
He termed the non-NC coalitions as an “aberration” saying that the previous BJP-PDP dispensation “turned out to be a big disaster that pushed the state to morass and political instability with people of all the three regions feeling dejected and deprived”. He said the failures of the “insensitive coalition took the state to backwards on developmental front”.
Asked about the BJP staging comeback at the centre and its impact on the politics of Jammu and Kashmir, Rana said that the two elections were quite different.
While the Lok Sabha elections were aimed at the formation of the government at the centre, he said that the assembly elections “are all about addressing to the political, economic and developmental aspirations of the state, which can only be assuaged by the National Conference”.
“This has been substantiated many a times in the past when the governments led by National Conference worked towards development and progress of the three regions with opportunities to all, irrespective of regional or religious aspirations,” he said.
Rana said that the contestants in the assembly elections will have to stand to the aspirations and expectations of their electorate here on ground zero.
“The performance of the BJP legislators is not a distant memory, but still afresh in the minds of the people, who feel haunted by over three years of misrule,” he said.
Rana expressed confidence that National Conference will secure the absolute mandate of the people and work for their betterment.
Prominent among those present on the occasion included former ministers Ajay Kumar Sadhotra, Surjeet Singh Salathia, B R Kundal, Abdul Gani Malik, former legislators Rattan Lal Gupta, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Kashmir Singh, Qazi Jalal Ud Din, Sardar Tarlochan Singh Wazir, Kamal Arora, Mrs Bimla Luthra, Mrs Deepender Kour, Mrs Swarn Latta, , Dr Gagan Bhagat among others.
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