Confident of NC- Congress forming govt: Mian Altaf Ahmad

Rajouri, Sep 14: Senior National Conference (NC) leader and Member of Parliament (MP) Mian Altaf today said that he and his party is confident of forming government with Congress after the assembly polls.

He assured the people of the regularisation of land rights.

He was addressing election rallies in support of NC nominee Javed Iqbal Choudhary at Khawas and Peeri in Budhal constituency. Mian Altaf aid that over the last 10 years the BJP regime has tried to render lakhs of people in Jammu and Kashmir landless.

He said, soon after National Conference- Congress come to power, the new government will regularise the land rights wherever people have been affected.

“Last six years saw BJP regime’s assault on land rights of people in both rural and urban areas. This has created uncertainty over dwelling which is the most basic human right,” the MP said.

The NC leader pointed out that people of Jammu and Kashmir can never forget New Delhi’s unilateral decisions of abrogating Article 370 and 35A and downgrading of a historic state to a Union Territory.

He stated that in the ongoing assembly elections people are all set to convey to the BJP through the power of their vote that downgrading of state to the Union Territory is a blot on the Indian federal constitutional system. Mian Altaf alleged that the BJP regime spent crores of rupees on false advertisements about their achievements such forest rights act but nothing was delivered on the ground.

“These elections are first major opportunity before people to have their own elected government restored and then there is a long struggle for restoration of our collective rights the BJP snatched,” said Mian Altaf. He said that the NC nominee for Budhal constituency, Javed Iqbal Choudhary, is a true grassroots leader who has risen from the level of Sarpanch to stand for the assembly.

“Javed has been instrumental in social and political and political transformation in Budhal constituency by way of hard work and dedication,” said Mian Altaf and asked people to reciprocate the goodwill by voting for him in large numbers. He pointed out that areas falling under Budhal constituency have been victim of the politics of exploitation but Javed has created mass political consciousness.