NC, PDP must pay for politics of exploitation, says Rasheed

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, June 16

Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) leader Engineer Rasheed, while addressing a day-long convention of party workers at Dak Bungalow, Baramulla, said the time was ripe that people showed National Conference (NC), Peoples Democratic Conference (PDP) and other traditional parties their right place and make them pay for their politics of exploitation.

Rasheed said NC leadership cannot always befool Kashmiris, stab them and still ask for votes.

“Not only the slogan of autonomy is outdated but unfortunately, the party has used this slogan to create confusion and weaken the real sentiments and aspirations of people of J&K,” AIP quoted Rasheed in a statement.

He said most of the leaders of NC and PDP had earned fortunes from the miseries of the masses and had created huge assets, indulged in corruption and nepotism and had ruined the credibility of institutions.

Rasheed reminded Omar Abdullah that before trying to stir emotions of Kashmiris against BJP, he should not forget that he was himself a minister in the BJP government, adding that the NC had a long history of justifying its surrenders and misdeeds.

Targeting the PDP, Rasheed said expecting anything good from its leadership was like expecting apples from poplar trees as the party had taken birth from the Congress, the mother of all evils when it comes to Kashmir.