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Ganderbal NC leader quits the party
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Monday, 31 March 2014
6:37 pm
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‘I know everything how Haji Yousuf died’
‘Farooq Abdullah was losing Ganderbal seat in 1987’
Srinagar: In a startling revelation,
prominent National Conference leader from Ganderbal Muhammad Yousuf Bhat from
Ganderbal Monday said that he saved Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his party
National Conference by not sharing information about the circumstances in which
NC worker Haji Yousuf died.
“I protected Omar Abdullah and saved his chair. I
maintained silence when Haji Yousuf died. I know every secret of his ‘murder’
but did not share those with anyone so far,” Muhammad Yousuf Bhat told Srinagar
based news gathering agency CNS adding that National Conference is the source
of continuous miseries for the people of Kashmir Valley.
Pertinently, Yousuf Haji, a National Conference senior
leader was summoned by the Chief Minister to his house on the evening of 29th
September, 2011 along with two other persons Muhammad Yousuf Bhat and Salam
Reshi who had given Rs1.8 crore allegedly to Haji Yousuf to buy them seats in
the Legislative Council. Police had said that Yousuf died of cardiac arrest
“I have decided to contest the Parliament elections as an
independent candidate and after 39 years I quit this party which has become the
family's ‘fiefdom,’ he said adding that time has come that he breaks the
silence and expose the ill-designs of National Conference.
Holding National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah
responsible for prevailing ‘gun culture’ in Jammu and Kashmir, Bhat told CNS
that he is witness to the fact how Farooq Abdullah indulged in coercion and
rigging during 1987 Assembly elections when there was Muslim United Front (MUF)
wave.
“I was an NC agent during 1987 assembly elections and am
witness to the fact how on the instructions of Farooq Abdullah, elections were
rigged. The NC candidate from Ganderbal (Farooq Abdullah) had tasted defeat but
he was surprisingly declared as the winner,” he said adding that it was only
after the rigging on mass scale that Kashmiri dejected youth lost faith in
democratic set up and started resistance movement.
He said that it was fraud committed by National
Conference for sake of grabbing power that gun culture flourished in Valley.
Bhat alleged that NC has always betrayed his party workers and ignored
Ganderbal. “I had joined this party where family members decide the course of
action through dictatorial means in 1975. I worked as a dedicated and
hardworking party worker in Ganderbal but I have realized now that there is no
place for hardworking and loyal workers in the party. This party is sidelining
seniors and giving preference to the scions of some affluent politicians,” he
told CNS citing the examples of Nasir Aslam Wani and Davinder Singh Rana who
according to him are the junior leaders of the party.
Pertinetly few months back Sheikh Saloora of Ganderbal
also quit NC and formed his own party namely Awami Insaf Party. (CNS)
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