Srinagar: Peoples Conference Chairman Sajad Gani Lone on Wednesday said that the ‘dynastic rulers’ of the National Conference are the ‘best separatists when out of power and one of the worst and cruel mainstreamers when they are in power.’
“When they are out of power, they remember all erosions made to Article 370, they talk about our special identity, they raise a hue and cry about human right abuses but when they are in power, they kill with impunity,” he said.
He added, “And it is strange that they lecture people about human right violations, about erosions, about Article 370 when they are ones who violated all of these. We don’t want to rake up history but the people of Jammu and Kashmir deserve to know what happened given that the ones who destroyed the special status are now sermonising.”
Lone said that the 1975 Accord between Sheikh Abdullah and Indira Gandhi drastically altered the relationship between Delhi and Srinagar. He added that maximum powers were transferred to Delhi after the accord.
“We repeat that one of the most critical events which changed the history of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and drastically altered the relationship between Delhi and Srinagar with transferring maximum powers to Delhi and diluting powers of Srinagar was the Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975. It is here that the former Prime Minister of the state chose to officially ratify the official demotion of Prime Minister to Chief Minister. May we ask Omar Abdullah what was the compulsion for Congress to give power on a platter to Sheikh Abdullah? There was no strife. There was no agitation. There was no militancy. The only reason was that they wanted official ratification by an ex-Prime Minister and incidentally Sheikh Abdullah, the only living Prime Minister of the state at that time, did that for them”, he added.
