{"id":127,"date":"2014-03-31T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/ganderbal-nc-leader-quits-the-party\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T13:37:00","slug":"ganderbal-nc-leader-quits-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Ganderbal NC leader quits the party"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018I know everything how Haji Yousuf died\u2019<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
\u2018Farooq Abdullah was losing Ganderbal seat in 1987\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Srinagar: <\/span><\/b>In a startling revelation, prominent National Conference leader from Ganderbal Muhammad Yousuf Bhat from Ganderbal Monday said that he saved Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his party National Conference by not sharing information about the circumstances in which NC worker Haji Yousuf died.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI protected Omar Abdullah and saved his chair. I maintained silence when Haji Yousuf died. I know every secret of his \u2018murder\u2019 but did not share those with anyone so far,\u201d Muhammad Yousuf Bhat told Srinagar based news gathering agency CNS adding that National Conference is the source of continuous miseries for the people of Kashmir Valley.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pertinently, Yousuf Haji, a National Conference senior leader was summoned by the Chief Minister to his house on the evening of 29th September, 2011 along with two other persons Muhammad Yousuf Bhat and Salam Reshi who had given Rs1.8 crore allegedly to Haji Yousuf to buy them seats in the Legislative Council. Police had said that Yousuf died of cardiac arrest<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI have decided to contest the Parliament elections as an independent candidate and after 39 years I quit this party which has become the family’s \u2018fiefdom,\u2019 he said adding that time has come that he breaks the silence and expose the ill-designs of National Conference.<\/span><\/div>\n
Holding National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah responsible for prevailing \u2018gun culture\u2019 in Jammu and Kashmir, Bhat told CNS that he is witness to the fact how Farooq Abdullah indulged in coercion and rigging during 1987 Assembly elections when there was Muslim United Front (MUF) wave.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI was an NC agent during 1987 assembly elections and am witness to the fact how on the instructions of Farooq Abdullah, elections were rigged. The NC candidate from Ganderbal (Farooq Abdullah) had tasted defeat but he was surprisingly declared as the winner,\u201d he said adding that it was only after the rigging on mass scale that Kashmiri dejected youth lost faith in democratic set up and started resistance movement.<\/span><\/div>\n
He said that it was fraud committed by National Conference for sake of grabbing power that gun culture flourished in Valley. Bhat alleged that NC has always betrayed his party workers and ignored Ganderbal. \u201cI had joined this party where family members decide the course of action through dictatorial means in 1975. I worked as a dedicated and hardworking party worker in Ganderbal but I have realized now that there is no place for hardworking and loyal workers in the party. This party is sidelining seniors and giving preference to the scions of some affluent politicians,\u201d he told CNS citing the examples of Nasir Aslam Wani and Davinder Singh Rana who according to him are the junior leaders of the party.<\/span><\/div>\n
Pertinetly few months back Sheikh Saloora of Ganderbal also quit NC and formed his own party namely Awami Insaf Party. (CNS)<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2018I know everything how Haji Yousuf died\u2019 \u2018Farooq Abdullah was losing Ganderbal seat in 1987\u2019 Srinagar: In a startling revelation, prominent National Conference leader from Ganderbal Muhammad Yousuf Bhat from Ganderbal Monday said that he saved Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his party National Conference by not sharing information about the circumstances in which NC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}