Farooq Abdullah denies sabotage in J&K fruit industry

India, Sept. 18 — Ruling National Conference president Farooq Abdullah Wednesday ruled out any deliberate attempt to sabotage the fruit industry in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway was because of God’s wrath and not peoples’ doing. “There is no deliberate attempt. Did people break the mountains? “Did it rain because of people? It was God’s wrath because we have kept a distance from God,” said Abdullah. reporters in Anantnag district. He was responding to questions about many political leaders alleging that fruit-laden trucks were kept stranded on the highway in a “deliberate” attempt to harm J-K’s economy. The former chief minister of the erstwhile State of J-K said people do not pray and do not seek God. “Do we share God’s blessing with the poor? We have to learn to do these things.