Tuesday 12th May, 2026
Srinagar, Mar 15: (UNI) Highlighting the need to forge unity across the state to trounce the alleged divisive agenda of the BJP and its ilk, National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah on Friday said that the forthcoming general elections are significant as it will characterize the recourse of the state for next half-a-decade.
“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,” Dr Abdullah said, while addressing delegations from various parts of the valley, here on Friday
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.
He said in the forthcoming elections people of the state will give befitting reply to such forces.
An NC spokesperson said that a delegation of traders whose stalls had suffered from conflagration in an incident fire in Hyderabad called upon the party president here at party head quarters and apprised him about the failure of the Telengana Government to recompense their losses.
“The NC president made on the spot phone call to the chief minister of Telengana and home minister of Telengana and urged them to provide compensation to the affected traders. Party president also dispatched a letter to the home minister of Telengana asking him to provide succor to the affected traders,” the spokesperson said.