Srinagar, Jan. 2 -- National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged harassment of Kashmiri shawl vendors in some states, accusing the elements with a "hard-line mindset" of attempting to establish an 'autocratic' regime reminiscent of Adolf Hitler.

However, Abdullah noted that Hitler's dictatorship ended with his suicide, bringing Nazism to an end, and expressed hope that the "polarizing worldview" gaining ground in secular India would also end with time.

"It is our destiny that there are some people whose aim is something else. They are treading Hitler's path and want to create a Hitler-type regime," he said. "But Hitler vanished; he shot himself. Nazism ended there, and a time will come her...