BJP influencing our leaders ahead of Assembly elections in J&K: Apni Party

Srinagar, Aug 19: Jammu & Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) Monday said that BJP has started influencing our leaders ahead of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. It maintained that the party will stand like a wall against the saffron party and it's ideology, and will not allow them to succeed in their ill-will designs.

Talking to reporters, Apni Party spokesperson Muntazir Mohi-ud-Din alleged that BJP has started influencing our party leaders to join the ranks of saffron party ahead of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

“Since the inception of Apni Party we were being labeled as A & B teams of BJP. We already clarified that neither we were associated with Saffron party in past, nor there is any chance of merging with them in future. This party is influencing our leaders ahead of Assembly elections. We want to ask those who dub us proxies of BJP, if we are their frontman, why they are taking away our leaders ahead of regional elections. We have always been against BJP and it's ideology, and it is why they are engineering ill-will designs against us,” Apni Party spokesperson Muntazir Mohi-ud-Din told reporters.

On ECI’s announcement about J&K Assembly elections, he said that Apni Party is the first who want to thank poll body for announcing poll notification, though it happened very late. “Apni Party welcomes ECI’s announcement. We are satisfied that we will reach out to people as they are well aware when Article 370 and 35(A) were taken away and jeopardized our land and job rights, it was Apni Party which met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, and flagged up concerns of the people of Jammu & Kashmir vociferously. We took a stand then and made it clear that people of J&K are the dwellers of this country, so their rights shouldn't be tinkered with,” he said.

He remarked that “Apni Party ensured protection of land and job rights, besides seats of MD and DM were kept reserved for locals only. Further we brought 3000 prisoners out of jails, and fought for release of Er Rashid. We believe in truth and we spoke. We hope people of J&K will not ignore our struggle we did for the betterment of J&K and its people. We are hopeful that people will vote us in large numbers in the forthcoming Assembly elections and make our party successful”.