Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 24 : The senior People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baig Monday said that a wise and well thought out use of ballot alone can take forward the struggle for their rights by the people of the State.
Addressing party workers from Sopore Assembly segment of Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency at Baramulla today he said lack of alternative to NC had in the past resulted in its monopoly which led in degeneration of that party into a B-team of either BJP or Congress depending on who rules Delhi.
Baig said places like Sopore had suffered the most because of the instability in Kashmir brought about by unprincipled politics of NC and its U-turns. He said many generations in the State lost meaning of their life as NC pursued one policy in the State and followed another in Delhi. “In Delhi they struck close relationships to seek favours and enjoy personal luxury while in the State they at one time led the plebiscite front for 22 years and after surrendering that assumed power to punish the people who still continued to be influenced by its earlier ideology”, Baig said pointing out that honest politicians like Sofi Mohammad Akber represented a tragic example of NC’s frequent volte-face.
Baig said it will be the effort of the PDP in the Parliament to remove misconceptions about the people of Jammu & Kashmir and also forcefully place their point of view before the country. “We will strongly raise our voice for your rights and not make compromise for positions in the Government” Baig told the workers.
Baig, said NC’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, “NC is always comfortable and promotes alienation and instability to keep people away from electoral exercise so that it remains in power by any means.
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