Where were BJP and PDP during floods? Omar Excelsior Correspondent Kokernag-Shangus, Dec 8: Chief Minister and National Conference Working President Omar Abdullah today said that the retrospective lectures of Narendra Modi and Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on the devastating floods were ironic since both leaders and their parties were either conspicuous in their absence or in the abandonment of their duties towards the people of Kashmir during the floods. Addressing massive election rallies in Kokernag, Shangus and Dooru in South Kashmir, Omar Abdullah said that Prime Minister has failed to do justice with the flood-affected victims of Kashmir as the Center was yet to take any call on the Rehablitation Package which was proposed by the State Government. On one hand we have Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing National Conference of not doing enough during the floods and on the other hand we have PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed leaving no stone unturned to play politics over the miseries of the flood victims, he said, adding the BJP Government in New Delhi has discriminated against the flood victims in Kashmir for political reasons and has made them suffer so that their sufferings could be exploited for political dividends in these elections. Till today the BJP Government in New Delhi has not taken a call on the Relief and Rehabilitation Package submitted by the State Government and the Prime Minister comes to Srinagar and accuses my Government of sleeping on the issue of the floods. If my Government was sleeping then, why has your Government and your political party decided to discriminate against Kashmiris so brazenly and blatantly while being awake?, Omar Abdullah said. He also questioned PDP patrons politicking over the floods and said that the State Government under his directions had kept a helicopter waiting for the Ex-Chief Minister at the Srinagar Airport to bring him into the City and consult him on the response to the tragedy. However Mufti...
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