Addressing his party workers in Jammu for the first time in over a year, a visibly emotional Farooq Abdullah on Friday said he won’t die until constitutional rights of the people of the erstwhile state are restored.

The National Conference (NC) president also assailed the BJP for “misleading the country” and making “false promises” to the people of Jammu and Kashmir as well as those in Ladakh.

“I will not die until the rights of my people are given back.... I am here to do something for the people and the day I will finish my work, I will leave this world,” Farooq Abdullah told NC workers, who packed the Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan here ahead of a scheduled meeting of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Saturday.

Farooq Abdullah, accompanied by his son and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, arrived here this afternoon, their first visit to the region in over a year.

“We have never thought that Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir are separate from each other. We could not take the people of these regions on board at the time of the formation of the PAGD due to the urgency of the situation and now we are here,” Abdullah said. — PTI

Courtesy: Daily Tribune: 6th November 2020