Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, 19 Mar: The senior leader People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzzafar Hussain Baig has said the 2014 will be a year of reckoning for National Conference, when it will have to account for the frauds it played on the people of Kashmir from last many decades and especially the blood it spilled during its current six years tenure.
Addressing party workers of Langate constituency, Baig said the main aim of NC has been to grab power by hook or crook for which it pushed many generations of Kashmir out of the system; first by opening separatist counter for plebiscite and latter victimizing the people who challenged it in 1987 elections.
Baig, who is the PDP’s Parliamentary candidate for Baramulla Lok- Sabha constituency, said whether it was in 1948 or 1975, the NC always made a fundamental entry into power without facing the elections. The party’s undemocratic conduct in the formative years of democracy in the country led to the disempowerment of people and it was only with the emergence of PDP that a real democratic competition was established in which people can make a choice and fight for their rights within the system.
Referring to the insecurity of Kashmiris especially the youth, Baig said the NC by its frequent U-turns has created a stereotype of undependability of every resident of the State. It has endorsed an injustice as in the case of hanging of Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guroo and defamed Kashmiri youth by branding them as stone-pelters, drug addicts and criminals.
Baig said the NC is now shamelessly asking the people to vote for it even after working against the people of Kashmir and calling them as ‘big thieves’, as Farooq Abdullah recently did to entertain his friends in New Delhi. He said on the one hand, NC sold out major power projects which could generate electricity worth crores every year and on the other hand it is calling the people as ‘MahaChors’. He said though there is no electricity available to people but the tariff has been increased five folds in years by the ruling party.
Urging the party cadres to take message of peace, dignity and development to people at large, Baig said there is a yearning for change all across the state.
The party senior leaders, Naeem Akhtar, chief spokesperson; Abdul Haq Khan, MLA; Sofi Gh Mohiudin, Ex-Minister and local leaders, Irfan Panditpori, Gh Nabi Panditpori, Fayaz Ahmad Mir, Mohammad Amin Wani, Mohammad Shafi Dar, Ali Moammd Malla and Gh Ahmad Pir were also present on the occasion.
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