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| Azad calls for strengthening of secular forces | | | Early Times report
Jammu, March 31: Hitting out at the BJP and PDP in the Kashmir valley, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday asked the people to strengthen secular forces and fight parties spreading communalism in the state and elsewhere in the country.
These parties had created an explosive situation in the state for their vested interest last year that resulted in polarisation on communal lines, Azad said, apparently referring to Amarnath Yatra agitation.
"BJP had drawn the advantage from it in Jammu and PDP in Kashmir in the assembly elections later," the AICC general secretary said, while addressing an election rally in support of party candidate contesting from Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency at Sunderbani, about 80 km from here.
He said that Congress entered into an alliance with National Conference (NC) in the state to fight the negative forces.
The alliance government, headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, will take the state forward towards further peace and progress, he said and asked the people to strengthen secular forces to fight parties spreading communalism and regionalism.
Appealing to people to vote for party candidates as also the NC candidates in the valley, the former chief minister expressed the hope that UPA would form the government at the Centre with Manmohan Singh heading it again.
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