The National Conference- Congress government will usher in a new era of deveopment in Jammu and Kashmir and help better India-Pakistan relations, NC patron Farooq Abdullah said on Tuesday.
"It will be a new era in the development of the state as well as in the relationship of not only Abdullahs and Gandhis, but also better relationship between India and Pakistan", said the 72-year-old father of Chief Minister- designate Omar Abdullah here.
The senior Abdullah, who himself was a claimant to the top job, said India and Pakistan would have to try to get the separatists on the "main table" so that they do not feel alienated and were brought to the mainstream for talks "so that a final and durable solution to this (Kashmir) problem of 60 years can be achieved."
Voicing "delight" at the coming together of the NC and Congress to form a new government in the border state, he said, "National Conference and Congress have been partners for many decades right from (the time of) Sheikh Sahib (Sheikh Abdullah) and Jawaharlal Nehru.
"...today that relationship has been further strengthened by the reunion in trying to build this state again towards better development, towards better future for the people of the state, which I think is very good," he said
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