Jammu sources have reported that after advising the BJP-RSS to refrain from "generating passions and exploiting public sentiments", National Conference (NC) Chief Farooq Abdullah said the growing trend of dividing the nation on religious lines was detrimental to national interest and such a tendency should be eschewed at all costs.
Moreover je also expressed concern over "vitiating" the ongoing Gujarat Assembly polls on the basis of religion and said it was the "saddest development in the Indian polity".
Farooq Abdulla added “The country of
Mahatma Gandhi cannot afford to get fragmented into bits and pieces on the
basis of religion to satiate the agendas of a few political outfits” Moreover the
NC leader, however, mentioned that nothing better could be expected from the
reactionary forces, who were now taking pride in "decorating the killer of
the Father of the Nation".
