GANDERBAL, Aug 25: NC vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday claimed the PDP has copied his party’s manifesto and asked the Mehbooba Mufti-led party to not field candidates against NC-Congress nominees for the betterment of Jammu and Kashmir as their agenda is the same. Abdullah’s remarks came a day after Mehbooba said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would extend complete support to the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance and leave all seats in the elections for the coalition if it accepts her party’s agenda. The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister was addressing NC workers in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, where activist Sayim Mustafa joined the party.
Abdullah said the NC has prepared an extensive manifesto for the assembly polls which has been copied by other parties. “We have not left out anything in the manifesto. Today, everyone has copied our manifesto.
They should have kept some differences,” he said, referring to the PDP’s manifesto which was released by Mehbooba on Saturday. Abdullah said his party promised to provide 200 free units of electricity if it comes to power and “they (PDP) also said they will provide 200 units”. “We said we will provide one lakh Government jobs in the first year, they also put that in their manifesto.
We talked about reopening (cross-LoC) routes, it is in their manifesto as well. We talked about keeping the doors of dialogue open and they also said so. Almost everything that my colleagues put in ou.