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| Secessionist groups willing to contest forthcoming assembly elections: Omar | | ‘Geelani asked youth to take up guns but managed his son a Govt job’ | | Srinagar, Jan 11
National Conference President Omar Abdullah here on Thursday said that though leaders talking independence are contemplating moves to participate in forthcoming assembly elections, but Central Government is unwilling to see the separatist leadership united.
Omar while launching a scathing attack on Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani alleged that he (Geelani) asked youth to take up guns and managed to get a Government job for his son during Governor's rule in the state. Predicting a very difficult election scenario for the state in future, he said 'people are raising new voices and even leaders talking independence are showing keen interest in contesting assembly elections". Replying to a question Omar said " If I would have been a Hurriyat leader, I might have thought hundred times as to what I have achieved for the nation. I would also render accounts for the work which I would have done for the last 17 years".
Predicting a hung assembly in forthcoming elections, the National Conference President claimed that Central Government too wants coalition politics to stay in the troubled Himalayan border state, as divided leadership, according to him, suits New Delhi and this is the repetition of all that what New Delhi did during legendry Sheikh Mohd Abdullah's time."
Regretting that Geelani raises fingers on others, Omar said " Geelani sheds tears on the killing of five lakh persons during last seventeen years of turmoil in the state, but let him explain as to what extent his own family got affected by the militancy related violence in the state". Elaborating he said "Geelani asked youth to take up guns, but managed to get a Government job for his son the time, when militancy erupted in the state. I would salute him today, had he had convinced his own son to take up the gun".
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