Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 1: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today said that the party’s roadmap for the resolution of Jammu & Kashmir issue, under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was clear, practicable and achievable in the present geo-political scenario.
Addressing a public meeting at Kilam in Devsar Constituency, she said the action in this regard was, in fact, started in 2002 itself, even the party having only 16 members in the Legislative Assembly, and it is under implementation. If the party gets a decisive mandate, it will carry forward its policies and agenda for resolution, reconciliation and reconstruction with the help of people only and hopefully leaving no role for discredited politicians who enriched themselves for decades over miseries of people.
She said it is PDP’s vision to get the state out of this morass without indulging in hoax slogans and blood-bath. The party stands for what is practically possible without emotionally black mailing people with the lofty promises of plebiscite and autonomy which were ultimately sold out for power. To bring Jammu & Kashmir out of the uncertainty and resultant darkness that has engulfed it for the last 65 years was the Party’s core agenda, and we had attempted this during our brief tenure in the Government and achieved a breakthrough, she said and added this process will be carried forward with support from people.
Mehbooba said any headway in Jammu and Kashmir issue is impossible without people being fully empowered; who have faced the maximum brunt of tumultuous times and of the present repressive regime, and PDP believes it is possible to do in an environment, where there is no fear, threat to life and unnecessary intimidation from the state.
Urging people to make it a point that they elect the politicians based on their performance only, she said, in the given circumstances, it is necessary to pave a way for the honorable resolution of political problem. She said a decisive mandate will provide legitimacy to the party’s resolution efforts.
Besides Mehbooba, those who spoke on the occasion include Mohammad Sartaj Madni, Deputy Speaker State Assembly, Nazir Ahmad Laway, district president Kulgam; Zaffarullah Wani, zonal president Kulgam; Sheeraz Ahmad, youth district president; Riyaz Ahmad, Jvaid Ahmad Sheikh; Abdul Salam Reshi and G. A. Thakur.
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