NC dislikes comparison with PDP

Srinagar, Mar 10 (UNI) The National Conference today took strong objection to Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani's statement comparing the main opposition party with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

''The NC is a movement and represents the aspirations and sentiments of the people while as the PDP has no existence of its own,'' a party spokesman said here in a statement.

He was commenting on Mr Geelani's recent statement in which the firebrand leader had stated that the NC and the PDP are the ''two sides of the same coin''.

The spokesman said the NC was not only committed to its agenda of greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir, but would support any solution to the vexed issue which is acceptable to the people of the state.

However, he said the PDP was a power hungry party and now-a-days involved in propagating the self-rule proposal of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to fulfill its ''selfish needs''.

The spokesman said former Chief Minister and PDP leader Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had always ''played with the sentiments of the people of the state''.

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