After Mehbooba & Omar jibes, Apni Party’s Altaf Bukhari says he isn’t a ‘dream seller’

Both PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti and NC president Omar Abdullah in their tweets have alleged that the police and administration of Jammu and Kashmir were helping the BJP and Altaf Bukhari’s JK Apni Party in the coming DDC elections and not allowing the candidates of the PAGD to campaign for the polls.

Reacting to these allegations, Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Thursday said that he does not believe in “selling dreams and promising people moon and stars”.

He said that his party aims to see Jammu and Kashmir on the path of development and not push the youth of the Valley into turmoil. He added that the new generation of Jammu and Kashmir is aware and also understands the real politics and the exploitation of them in the name of emotional slogans.

In the recent past, many prominent activists from the National Conference, PDP and Congress have joined the Apni Party ahead of the DDC polls and this has irked these parties, according to Bukhari.

But senior leaders of the NC and PDP have claimed that such defections at the grassroots level were being encouraged by the security agencies to help the BJP and the Apni Party in the coming local elections.

It is in place to mention that the Apni Party is fighting for the restoration of statehood and has also opposed the recent amendments in land laws but it has categorically said that the restoration of Article 370 can be done either by Parliament or the Supreme Court.