Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 11: Hitting back at Dr Karan Singh for his remarks about Mehbooba Mufti trying to break up Jammu, PDP today said the veteran Congress leader seems to be playing to galleries.
In a statement, the PDP Spokesperson Rafi Ahmad Mir said pleading for empowerment of the backward areas of any region is not communal. “The PDP has been a pioneer of empowering Ladakh and creating Hill Development Council for Kargil but it never attracted the criticism of being communal. When we talk of giving similar treatment to Pir Panjal and Chenab regions, why should a leader of the stature of Dr Singh smell the rat? In all the three regions, Ladakh, Pir Panjal and Chenab, the population spread is a mixed representation of people of different faiths. If it is not breaking up one region why should it amount to the same now in these regions of Pir Panjal and Chenab?” Mir said and added that the PDP will continue to follow the roadmap for equitable development of the State that has been laid down by its founder Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and its special focus will be on backward areas of Ladakh, Pir Panjal and Chenab.
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