SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah has outrightly denied that his party, the National Conference, will support Narendra Modi or his Hindu Nationalist Bhartiya Janta Party should they come to power at the Centre.
Mr Abdullah said the NC will continue to remain an ally of the United Progressive Alliance. “We are not the people who change horses midstream,” he said.
Mr Abdullah’s uncle and NC’s Additional General Secretary, Mustafa Kamal also denied that they will support Mr Modi should he become PM, after a local news agency quoted him as saying otherwise.
According to the agency, Mr Kamal recalled his father Sheikh Abdullah’s policy that the ruling party in Jammu and Kashmir had to “sit on the right side of the government in Delhi”.
But Mr Abdullah, talking to reporters in Jammu on Tuesday, recalled the “cherished observations of Sheikh Abdullah on being steadfast to the chosen path and said he would always say that it is better to get betrayed than to betray anyone”.
“I know NC-Congress alliance is much to the discomfiture of certain political entities who want to create confusion”, the Chief Minister said.
“There is no question of making any compromise with the principles and have any relationship with BJP-NDA.
