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Omar comes out in Sakina’s support
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Monday, 31 March 2014
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Terms video obsolete, accuses PDP of misleading Election
Commission
Srinagar: Coming out in defence of
senior NC leader and a cabinet minister Sakina Itoo over the controversy that
erupted after the video showing Itoo compelling an old me to support her, Chief
Minster Omar Abdullah Sunday stated that the video is obsolete and
shot before the Code of Conduct was imposed in the state.
In a video clip, Itoo and her workers are seen forcing
the old man in, the 3.11 minutes video, to take oath and swear by Allah and the
Prophet (PBUH) and promise that he will support National Conference.
Opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party had registered
complain against the state’s lone woman minister- urging the election
commission to take action against her.
Chief Minster Omar Abdullah Monday took to
social networking site, twitter, writing, “I know the PDP is in complete panic
mode but using old videos & trying to mislead the EC about code violations
is desperate beyond words."
“Recite Kalima Toiba and take holy Quran in your hands,
swear that you will support Sakina Itoo,” one of the workers not in picture
directs the old man, which he repeatedly refuses.
The video that surfaced on Facebook in the recent past
showed one of the Itoo’s workers not in picture requesting the old man to do
work for the party as he did in 1996. He asks the old man to take holy Quran in
his hands and swear that he will work for the party to which old man replies
that Holy Quran is meant for recitation and not for swearing.
After getting his answer, Itoo retorts back and supports
the arguments of her worker and tells the old man that he deviated from the
right path.
“Recite the Kalima Toiba and take pledge that you will
support me,” Itoo repeatedly asks the old man and while holding his hand again
and again tells him that she has no malice in her heart against him.
“She is trying to convince an old worker of her
father to come back & work for the party as he had been upset for a while..
I've spoken to Sakina, this video was taken months before the election code.
She isn't threatening anyone, she isn't abusing anyone,” Omar wrote on Twitter. (KNS)
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