Senior NC leader Rather’s son joins Sajad Lone party
The Hindu
My dream is to make J&K a hub of peace, tranquillity and progress: Hilal Rather
Senior National Conference (NC) leader Rahim Rather's son joined Sajad Lone’s Peoples Conference (PC) on Saturday. This is the second known face’s exit from the NC in the past five days.
“The PC has arrived. Let there be no delusions. There are many soothsayers who refuse to see reality as it exists and want to create reality as they want to see it. I want to tell those delusional people that the PC has arrived and will conquer for the best interests of the people of J&K,” Mr. Lone, who quit the Gupkar alliance earlier this year, said after Mr. Rather joined him.
Mr. Lone seemed buoyed by the decision of Mr. Rather, who is the son of NC leader and ex-Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather. Senior Rather is also close to NC president Farooq Abdullah. Junior Rather is facing a case of corruption in the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ABC) over loans taken from the J&K Bank.