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| AKHOON’S PATIENCE BLEEDS | | Says, NC’s ‘khandaani raj’ extending to Sagar family | | ET Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 13: National Conference (NC) leader and former MLA from Hazratbal, Mohammad Sayeed Akhoon, has rejected candidature of the nominees of his party for Lok Sabha elections as well as Assembly by-elections. According to him, Sheikh family’s “dynastic rule” was now extending to the family of Mr Ali Mohammad Sagar. Alongwith Dr Farooq Abdullah, Sagar’s 28-year-old son, Salman Sagar, has been declared as NC’s co-candidate for the Central Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency of Srinagar-Budgam today.
According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), Akhoon has not accepted the four candidates nominated today by his party. He has immediately left from Jammu to Srinagar by road and threatened to take a “revolutionary step” on Tuesday after a meeting with his followers and party colleagues.
A non-descript political activist till 1990, Akhoon had singularly in the NC stayed in Srinagar in the worst ever period of militancy and kept his party’s flag high for seven years. He successfully contested 1996 and 2002 Assembly elections and represented Hazratbal segment for 12 years. In the Assembly elections of 2008, he had to clear out as Dr Farooq Abdullah himself contested from Hazratbal---and later also from Sonwar. Even as Akhoon swallowed the bitter pill, his son-in-law, Sheikh Ashfaq, got up and contested as a Congress candidate against then NC President Omar Abdullah in Ganderbal.
According to KNS, Akhoon lamented that he had been “continuously deceived” by the NC leadership which, he claimed, had promised him a berth in Legislative Council and even its Chairmanship. He has said that it was because of his hard work that Dr Abdullah had won in both Hazratbal and Sonwar and his son had achieved victory in Ganderbal. According to him, Dr Mustafa Kamal could not be “thrust upon Hazratbal” after being rejected by the people in his Gulmarg segment. He has also assailed mandate to Salman Sagar and lamented that Sheikh family’s “dynastic rule” was now extending to Mr Sagar’s family.
Immediately after Dr Abdullah announced the names of NC’s candidates, a number of Akhoon’s supporters expressed their dismissal of the mandate by shouting slogans on the Nawa-e-Subah premises. They shouted that NC had created a bizarre example of “khandaani raj” by issuing tickets to Salman Sagar (Ali Mohammad Sagar’s son), Dr Mustafa Kamal (Dr Farooq’s brother) and Mohammad Yasin Shah (husband of the cousin of NC General Secretary Sheikh Nazir Ahmed).
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