Reports on destabilizing Coalition Govt fabricated: Soz

Expressing regrets over the publication of a statement in a section of press in Jammu and Kashmir casting insinuation on his integrity and probity, Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress committee Chief Saif-u- Din Soz has described it as mere fabrication. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said that the avowal gives an impression that as if he was behind the stories that got published in a section of press recently. He said that the statement suggested the role of the senior leader in destabilizing the Cong-NC alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the insinuations directed against him were nothing but a pack of lies. Putting across his point he said that he had not spoken to any body in associated with the media organizations having had published the news item. “The papers that carried certain details regarding warming up of the person towards PDP to destabilize the NC-INC coalition developed a plot for the fiction out of their own efforts and I have no knowledge on the background of these stories,” Soz said. What the leader had spoken to groups of people during his long tours of the J&K State recently and the leaks of his speeches is now public knowledge; he said and added that all the stories on that tour appeared in various news papers. “As for the particular stories, against which he directed his ire and extreme anger against me, the names of journalists had also appeared and the truth could easily be nailed if he had tried to do so,” he added. He said that it was politically absurd and ethically obnoxious to indulge in character assassination and blackmail of the kind his statement reflected. “If he is prepared to nail the truth and proves my involvement, I will apologize publicly. The media persons in the length and breadth of the State know me for not saying anything off the record. There was absolutely no justification for the leader to lose his cool and go to the extreme of indecency, unnecessarily,” Soz said. As for the induction of seven Congress Party Ministers in the J&K Council of Ministers, it is the Party high Command that had approved the list, he said.