In a candid conversation with Outlook’s Naseer Ganai, Omar Abdullah discusses the political landscape in Baramulla. He expresses his views on the BJP’s tactics, the significance of the upcoming elections, and the rise of nationalist movements.
He also addresses accusations of political dynasties and emphasizes the importance of voter sentiment. The conversation provides a glimpse into the complexities of the political scenario in the region.
Videographer: Romana Manpreet
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He also addresses accusations of political dynasties and emphasizes the importance of voter sentiment. The conversation provides a glimpse into the complexities of the political scenario in the region.
Videographer: Romana Manpreet
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00:00I just wish the parties that were trying to benefit from the BJP
00:03had the guts to meet the Home Minister in daylight.
00:18All elections are significant. These are the general elections.
00:21We have to send representatives to Parliament to see what's up with these injections.
00:26Elections obviously goes up because they're the first after the momentous betrayal of
00:325th August 2019. They're also the first after the delimitation, so for a number of reasons.
00:42There has been a lot of political discourse about Article 3370 and the restoration of it by the
00:47political parties and political leaders. There has been also silence about it from
00:51the people's side. What have they talked about poor people? They've not been allowed to talk
00:55about anything. Every time they want to speak up, their voices are subdued, they're pressurised
01:01into being silent. So this time they're talking to speak the only way they know how. They're
01:05coming out in large numbers and casting their vote and all, most of these votes will go to
01:10parties that are opposing what the BJP did. Yesterday you saw the visit of Home Minister
01:16how do you perceive that? What is the strange visit? Because officially the BJP has no candidates
01:21in these three seats and clearly he came for a political purpose. That's why he stayed in
01:27Vaisalapuram and met people there. I suspect that the BJP is very rattled by the response that NC has
01:37got, particularly in Agarwala's election and they're trying to now rally their forces for
01:43Baramulla and Anantnath. So you asked your supporters not to pick up the phone call,
01:47what are the reasons? Because they're getting calls from police stations, they're being summoned
01:52and then they're being kept until the end of polling. We saw this in the first phase,
01:56the Srinagar phase, so I don't want them to pick up the phones because if they don't get the call
02:00they won't go to the Dhana. You have been saying that this election is about NC versus Naresh,
02:05how do you see it? That's exactly how I see it.
02:09PDP is taking up the issue, talking about 1987 rigging and all that, how do you see that?
02:16Well, then they need to explain what Mufti Muhammad Syed Sahib was doing in that coalition
02:21and then they need to start talking about all the massacres that took place when Mufti Syed was
02:25Home Minister. I have no problem, we will answer for 1987, but they need to answer for 1990 and
02:32onwards, all the massacres that Mufti Syed engineered. Also, how do you see the Injina
02:38Rasheed contesting from Dharam Lataan? Another one to join the gang is a contestant,
02:47they're trying an emotional campaign, they're talking about one prisoner, one person's liberty,
02:54the National Conference is talking about thousands of people's liberty, that's what differentiates
02:58us. They're not even talking about Yaseen Malik and Shabbir Shah, I would have hoped that if
03:04nothing else they would talk about people like Asian Ravi, Yaseen Malik, Shabbir Shah, but they
03:09have a single-point agenda to talk about only one person. National Conference is talking for
03:14all those thousands of youngsters who have been entertained after 2019. A number of the BJP
03:21leaders are asking to vote for and not for NCP and the Congress, how do you see it?
03:29The BJP is free to ask for votes whoever they want, I just wish the parties that were trying
03:34to benefit from the BJP had the guts to meet the Home Minister in daylight rather than at
03:40the midnight hour. We all know that Srinagar is a very small place, we all know somebody or the
03:47other who works in that five-star hotel where the Home Minister was staying, we know who came
03:51at midnight and who met him, so I wish these parties had the guts to at least admit that
03:57they're trying to benefit from the BJP. My last question is they are accusing these political
04:01parties, both NCP and the PDP are being dynasties, how do you see it? Do the voters have a problem
04:08with it? If the voters don't have a problem with it, I really couldn't care less what the BJP says.
04:17you