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| Azad owns properties worth crores in J&K, is building palatial house at Ansal farms in Delhi, alleges Vikar Rasool | | |  Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 18: A day after chairman of Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), Ghulam Nabi Azad termed Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) president Vikar Rasool as “petty shopkeeper,” Rasool hit back on Saturday saying, “Azad is a 100% BJP man.”
Talking to reporters after addressing a party convention at Pampore, Rasool said, “Azad is 100% in BJP. He held many meetings with us to convey that a secret alliance would be kept with BJP. Take me to any Dargah. I can swear that Azad is with the BJP.”
He said, “Azad on many occasions discussed with us the formation of his party and told us clearly that his party will have a secret alliance with BJP. We advised him that our future is secure with Congress but he developed friendship with PM Modi and even wept for him.”
Vikar Rasool said, “Since the day DPAP was formed they have been taunting me that I was a shopkeeper. I want to ask them, is being a shopkeeper a sin? Or is it a crime? Can’t a shopkeeper become a MLA? By abusing me they are abusing the entire business community of J&K.”
He said, “Don’t go by their karakulis and Bukhari names. They are a part of BJP and to vote for them means vote for RSS.”
Pertinently, Azad on Friday while addressing a gathering in Banihal had said: “Instead of serving the people of this most backward area of J&K, the shopkeeper (Vikar Rasool) developed relations with big companies and brazenly indulged in amassing wealth.”
He had said and mentioned that the “shopkeeper” of Banihal has constructed two palatial houses in Jammu and is the owner of a huge chunk of land also. “I have been in politics for a long time but I could not construct even a house in Jammu but the same shopkeeper has constructed two”, Azad had said.
Vikar Rasool, while replying to allegations leveled by Azad, said, “Ghulam Nabi Azad’s house is > Asks can’t shopkeeper become a MLA
> Says former J&K chief minister is 100% BJP man
On being told that Azad had said that the youth (Vikar Rasool) whom he had selected from Banihal to work for the welfare of people and made him a MLA, instead of working for people has built his own mansions, Rasool said, “People close to Nagar Singh who looted Banihal people shared stage with Azad. People enjoying blessings of Azad looted the highway and railway in Banihal. They indulged in extortion from poor labourers. ”
Vikar said, “Let anyone prove that I or any of my relatives have done any work on the railway or highway. I will leave politics on the same day.”
He said, “I have taken a loan of Rs 65 lakhs from the bank and purchased one kanal land and built a house. I haven’t made any other property. I know he (Azad) is getting my property probed through agencies.”
Vikar said, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones on the houses of other people. Azad joined hands with BJP as all his records of health ministry were probed and the details of properties owned in crores by these people came to fore. Azad had to join BJP otherwise he would have met the same fate which Lal Singh met.”
Referring to his political background, Vikar Rasool said, “My late uncle Sanaullah Banihali who was the district president of Congress and a former legislator had walked from Thatri to Gandoh to nominate Azad’s father as block president of Congress. Why is Azad not saying this? My family has been affiliated with Congress for the past 70-years. My father and uncle were both legislators. When I became a MLA I was chairman of the Municipality for five years.” |
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