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| BJP losing sleep over PAGD white paper: Farooq | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 2: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Party President and Member of Parliament Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday said the Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP) has "lost sleep" over Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) white paper that was released recently. He alleged that communal forces are day in day out trying to politically neutralise the region's real representative democratic forces. "Finding themselves in a sticky situation, these communal forces under the smokescreen of electoral redistricting are gerrymandering to politically isolate the real representative and democratic forces of Jammu and Kashmir, " Farooq said while addressing the party's local unit functionaries of district Ganderbal at party district headquarters. Ridiculing the BJP's remarks that PAGD's white paper is a desperate attempt to regain lost power in J&K, Farooq said that "BJP and it's local proxies who perversely are endeavouring to grab power, themselves fit the description." "People know who is desperate to grab power. Everything is before them. We are not in politics to grab power, but to protect political, cultural and economic interests of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Knowing that they cannot swoop in to grab power through democratic means, BJP and it's proxies are engineering defections by employing perverse tactics. Today the youth of Jammu, Pir Panjal, Chenab, and Kashmir are disenchanted. BJP's self-styled version of Naya Kashmir has so far only entailed falsehood and deceit," he said. In the white paper released on Saturday, PAGD had said that a canard was created about misgovernance in the erstwhile J&K state to justify the reading down of Article 370. Farooq said the brewing disenchantment among the youth of Jammu, Kashmir, Pir Panjal and Chenab is giving BJP sleepless nights. "We challenge the BJP to counter our white paper with its own white paper. We challenge the BJP government on its claims of providing jobs, investment and development. A lie has no legs. This BJP knows. The myths they have been churning out are about to die universal death," he added. Formation of PAGD, he said, was the redefining moment in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. "NC is not up for petty electoral gains. I along with other constituent members of PAGD are working for a much larger cause and purpose to restore J&Ks abridged constitutional and democratic rights," he said. Accusing the NATO expansion of steering Ukraine towards bloodshed,
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