Lok Sabha polls:Farooq calls for unity for defeating ‘divisive agenda’

Srinagar, Mar 15: President National Conference, Farooq Abdullah on Friday highlighted the need of forging unity across the state to trounce the divisive agenda of the BJP saying that the forthcoming general elections are significant as it will characterize the recourse of the state for next half a decade.
Farooq, while addressing delegations from Anantnag, Srinagar, Magma, Beerwah, Pulwama and Shopian at party headquarters here, said it is high time for the people of all the regions across the state to “put up a strong front against the divisive agenda of the RSS–BJP in the state”.
“I am sure that the people of state will give befitting reply to the RSS and its ilk. If the people don’t forge unity at this time, the posterity will never forgive us. It is for us to bequeath our coming generations a peaceful future. The forthcoming general elections afford the people an opportunity to secure themselves a peaceful future shorn of communal strife,” he said
The NC president said that the people of state should not “fall prey to the divisive agenda of communal forces”.
“These forces directly and indirectly will try to vitiate the atmosphere but we as a peace-loving society should not allow ourselves get swayed by their malicious propaganda,” he said.
Meanwhile a delegation of traders whose stalls had suffered from conflagration in fire incident in Hyderabad called upon the party president here at party headquarters and apprised him about the failure of the Telengana Government to recompense their losses.
Farooq made on the spot phone call to the chief minister and home minister of Telengana and urged them to provide compensation to the affected traders.
The NC president also dispatched a letter to the home minister of Telengana asking him to provide succor to the affected traders.