BJP, DPAP criticize Farooq Abdullah over Pakistan remarks
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National Conference president Farooq Abdullah drew criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Democratic Progressive Azad Party after remarks about Pakistan’s efforts to keep the Kashmir issue alive internationally.
Speaking at a party workers’ meeting in Baramulla, Abdullah said Pakistan was raising the unresolved status of Kashmir around the world and added, “Only that will save us.” He urged people in Jammu and Kashmir to stand up for their rights and questioned whether they could expect justice from Delhi. Abdullah also stressed that his party’s members were not “enemies of the country,” saying they considered themselves Indians and would progress and die with their homeland.
Jammu and Kashmir BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur called the remarks “seditious and anti-national” and demanded that authorities consider legal action. He accused Abdullah of legitimizing Pakistan’s position while questioning India’s intentions toward its citizens. Thakur said Pakistan had contributed to decades of terrorism, bloodshed and insecurity in the region.
DPAP president Ghulam Nabi Azad also rejected the comments, saying successive Indian governments had contributed to Jammu and Kashmir’s development. “Pakistan is our destroyer, not our saviour,” Azad said, accusing it of destabilizing the region and pointing to violence, displacement and protests in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
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