NEW DELHI: Saying they are anti-BJP and not anti-national, leader of the National Conference Farooq Abdullah on Saturday he said that the goal of the Popular Alliance is to ensure that the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir Y Ladakh are restored.
The statement came after members of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration met in the head of PDP Mehbooba MuftiResidence in Srinagar for the first time after training.
“We are against the BJP, not against the nation. Attempts to divide us in the name of religion will fail. It is not a religious struggle,” the North Carolina leader said after the meeting.
After the meeting, leader of the People’s Conference Sajad lone, who also attended the meeting, said that Farooq Abdullah has been elected as president and Mehbooba Mufti as vice president of the recently launched People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration.
The CPM leader, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, is the coordinator of the alliance, while Sajad Lone has been appointed spokesperson.
The leaders of the amalgam adopted as their symbol the flag of the old state of Jammu and Kashmir.
“A document will be prepared within a month through which we will present the facts behind the lies that are being spread. It will be a tribute to the people at J&K who are being slandered,” added Lone.
On Friday, Mehbooba Mufti sparked a controversy after saying she was not interested in running in elections or celebrating the national tricolor until constitutional changes applied on August 5 last year were reversed.
In her first interaction with the media after her release from 14-month detention, the PDP president said she would hold up the tricolor only when the separate old state flag was restored.
The BJP of Jammu and Kashmir beat her and demanded the arrest of the head of the PDP for her “seditious” comments. The BJP said that “no power on earth” can raise the state flag again or restore article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to the old state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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