Don’t surrender Banihal seat to Congress: NC leader Sajjad Shaheen, workers to party leadership

Srinagar, Aug 24: Senior National Conference (JKNC) leader from Banihal Sajjad Shaheen and  his party cadres and supporters in the constituency today  urged their leadership not to surrender the seat to Congress.

Reports said that an emergency meet was held in Banihal. The meeting was chaired by JKNC leaders Sajjad Shaheen and Dr Shamshada Shan. The leaders and workers unanimously opposed the alliance with the Congress in Banihal.

Sajjad said  some reports are doing rounds  on social media that Banihal seat has been given to Congress leader Vikar Rasool Wani, who was recently removed from JKPCC post. “ But our party leadership has not communited such things to us and we infact have been told to prepare for polls,” he said.

However, Sajjad said that things would only be cleared after the JKNC notifies the list of its candidates.

“The party has assured me that I will be given the mandate, however it would only be clear once the list is out,” he said.

He said that Vikar was recently removed from the President’s post for misappropriating funds designated for Bharat Jodo Yatra. “How can he be trusted and voted by my people,” he asked.

He further said that how can they trust the Congress leader when he has given them no benefit for last decade.

NC leaders and workers  urged the party’s top leadership to not to surrender the Banihal seat. They said that the “alliance has slaughtered them politically and that their hard work for past two-decades will be washed out if the party goes on with the alliance in the constituency.”