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Farooq Abdullah calls BJP `enemy of the nation`
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday called Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee`s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) `enemy of the nation` for alluding that his National Conference had rigged the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary by-elections.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday called Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) "enemy of the nation" for alluding that his National Conference had rigged the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary by-elections.
He said that by accusing the National Conference of using illegal means to win last week's elections in the state, the BJP and other political parties were playing into the hands of anti-national forces.
"These parties are trying to cover up their own dissensions and failure to mobilize the voters," he told reporters before the start of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly's budget session.
He said the BJP and the opposition parties including the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party had ganged up against the National Conference after "losing" the by-poll.
The Election Commission of India has withheld the results of the February 21 poll that the National Conference is said to have won by a huge margin.
"We have full faith in the Election Commission," Farooq said.
Asked if the BJP had turned against the National Conference, an ally in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it heads, the chief minister said: "They are enemies of the nation."
He said his party's victory in the polls was a manifestation of the, "Fact that National Conference is a nationalist party. It is the only party that can keep Jammu and Kashmir as part of India."
Bureau Report
"These parties are trying to cover up their own dissensions and failure to mobilize the voters," he told reporters before the start of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly's budget session.
He said the BJP and the opposition parties including the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party had ganged up against the National Conference after "losing" the by-poll.
The Election Commission of India has withheld the results of the February 21 poll that the National Conference is said to have won by a huge margin.
"We have full faith in the Election Commission," Farooq said.
Asked if the BJP had turned against the National Conference, an ally in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it heads, the chief minister said: "They are enemies of the nation."
He said his party's victory in the polls was a manifestation of the, "Fact that National Conference is a nationalist party. It is the only party that can keep Jammu and Kashmir as part of India."
Bureau Report