Farooq Abdullah vows new government will unite Kashmir, Jammu

Srinagar, Oct 9: National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah Wednesday said that the NC-Congress government would aim to minimise the differences between the two regions of Jammu and Kashmir and to build confidence among the Jammuites.

"We have to minimise the differences that they have created between Kashmir and Jammu. Our endeavour should be that the Jammuites there have this confidence in us that we will think about them in the same manner as about Kashmir,” Abdullah told reporters here.

“We will not differentiate between the two. So what if they did not vote for us? We must solve their problems,” he said.

The NC chief said that there were many challenges before the new government.

“The biggest challenges are inflation and unemployment. We have to create opportunities for our youth,” he said.

Abdullah also asserted his supremacy over the choice of person who will head the government.

On his son Omar’s saying that the alliance will decide who will be the chief minister, the senior Abdullah said: “What I have decided, only that will happen.”

The NC president on Tuesday said Omar Abdullah will be the chief minister of the new government.