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We are anti BJP, not anti-national, Farooq Abdullah after being named Chief of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration

Srinagar
October 26, 2020

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah was on Saturday unanimously chosen as the Chairman of the recently floated Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) while PDP Chief and former J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will be his deputy.

The alliance released a statement saying that CPM leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami will be the convenor of the alliance, while Sajad Lone of People's Conference has been named as its spokesperson.

The amalgam leaders, who met at the residence of Mehbooba Mufti for the first time after its formation, adopted the flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir as its symbol. The alliance will come out with a white paper within a month on Governance in Jammu and Kashmir over the past one year since the abrogation of Article 370, Sajad Lone told reporters after the meeting.

"The white paper will not be rhetoric. It will be based on facts and figures to present the reality to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and around the country. An impression is being given that all the corruption had happened in Jammu and Kashmir only," Lone said.