Opposition National Conference on Thursday termed the statement of union home minister on the revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Jammu and Kashmir as "unfortunate and counter-productive", saying such remarks also exposed ruling Peoples Democratic Party's "complete and total sell-out" to the Bharatiya Janata Party for the sole aim of coming to power in the state.
"Such remarks expose PDP's complete and total sell-out to the BJP for the sole aim of coming to power in J&K. The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement is unfortunate and counter-productive," NC general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar said.
"Both PDP and BJP had pledged to pave way for the revocation of AFSPA in their 'Agenda of the Alliance' -- which was marketed as the Common Minimum Program between the two parties," he said said.
Singh today said the controversial AFSPA will be revoked from the state when the situation is conducive for it.
Revocation of the AFSPA is part of the 'Agenda of Alliance' -- the common minimum programme on which the PDP formed government with the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir.
Sagar said this was another "successive U-turn" enacted by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP Government.
"Sayeed tried to create many moral smokescreens ahead of formally forging PDP's previously informal alliance with the BJP. One such moral smokescreen was PDP's alleged 'condition' of getting AFSPA revoked -- which is explicitly mentioned in their alleged 'CMP'," he said.
"It has now become evident that this was a lie that was propagated to fool the people into believing that this alliance had apparent ideological bearings. This alliance was cobbled up for the sole and singular aim of power and PDP's sell-out has put the state's interests -- including the humanitarian demand for the revocation of AFSPA on the back-burner, which is extremely condemnable and unforgivable," he added.
