Srinagar, Oct 29: Virtually seeking forgiveness from people and trying to make them understand that they are no more fighting for the power but for the rights of the people and their dignity, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday rejected the new Land Laws in J&K and reiterated JKNC’s stand to fight out all such illegal moves.

“Lanath ho ham pay agar in halaath mein ham iktidaar ki kursi kay peechey bhagien. Log hamien maaf nahi kariegin agar hamari nazar secretariat ya kursi pay rahi. Hamari ladai hamari pehchaan kay liye hai,” Omar Abdullah said while addressing a party function at Nawai Subah Headquarters here in Kashmir capital Srinagar.

“When we raise our voice for our identity and our future, you call us anti-national. Does the Centre want us to leave the mainstream? Where does it say that to seek our rights as per the constitution is illegal?, he questioned.

He said the time for power-politics is over and all political parties have come together to fight for the restoration of Article 370.

   “Due to the conspiracy of the centre, we were forced to come on a single platform. We won’t engage in petty political fights right now. We cannot talk about forming the government now as people are looking at us to know if they will save our land and identity. It is not going to last for weeks or months but we will fight. If we lose this fight, we will remain nowhere, hope we see victory in our lifetime,” Omar said.

He said if the regional parties had come together earlier, New Delhi would not have been successful in its designs. “Delhi-wallas left no stone unturned to divide us. If we had united a year before, this would not have happened. Centre time and gain tried to divide us, we got divided and their conspiracy got successful,” he added

“That time we were walking separate path – PDP was separate, CPI-M was separate. Congress was separate….maybe they are separate now too. I am not looking at five seats of Budgam or other seats. This is not a fight for power. It is not a fight for CM. Woe to us if we still run after power. People will never forgive us if our eyes remain on entering the Secretariat and grab a seat there. Our fight is to save our identity and our future,” he said.

  “The laws that were abolished had been introduced by Maharaja. They (BJP) bowed before his statue recently and now they call us anti-national. They talk to Naga leaders who say they do not accept the Indian sovereignty and constitution. I don’t see their names on TV channels that they are anti-national,” said Omar.

“If we had to do rebellion against the country, then our worker Maqbool Sherwani would not have played the role,Why weigh us on different scales? What do you want us to do? Do you want us to leave mainstream? Somebody make me understand, where it is written that striving for your rights within the ambit of the constitution is anti-national,” he added.

“Stronger laws are elsewhere too. In Himachal, Lakshadweep, Nagaland, Sikkim, and in so many other states. A citizen of this country cannot buy land, don’t know what is the fault of people here. When we raise our voice, we are labeled anti-national. But, we are talking about what was given to us by this constitution,” he said. (KNT)