Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 16: The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today said that National Conference is desperate to create fear, insecurity and disturb peace in Kashmir as a last bid to keep voters away from polling stations.
Addressing various roadside meetings in Shopian and Wachi segments of Anantnag Parliamentary constituency, Mehbooba said the ruling party which is sensing its rout could go to any extent and might even target its own workers in order to create panic and fear among political parties.
“They have always created in insecurity and at this crucial juncture, when the NC feels its very existence as a political party is threatened, it might target anyone while it has launched a wild and baseless propaganda against PDP to create a camouflage for its desperate action,” she said.
She said after having lost its credibility among the people and without any solid performance report card in its hands, the NC is now looking for cheap ways to create instability in Kashmir so that people will not come out to exercise their franchise. The NC considers thin voter turnout as its only poll strategy but it is sure to fail, said Mehbooba.
She said the ‘Qurbani’ that NC always quotes as having offered for Kashmir is actually the blood of those thousands of people whom it misled into losing their life and pushing them into sufferings under the banner of ‘Raishumari’ and later secure power for itself.
She said till 1975 innocent people of Kashmir were made to contribute sacrificial hide skins and jewelry for the plebiscite movement but it all ended up in setting up a new Maharaja family in the state, which inflicted worse atrocities on the people than even by the feudal rulers.
Mehbooba said it is true that the followers of NC like everybody else in the State have suffered a great deal on account of the ruling party’s wrong and selfish policies but its only beneficiary has been the Abdullah family and a coterie of their close politicians.
Mehbooba said the NC and Congress have actually given up the fight after finding it difficult to even muster audiences for their public meetings and that is why it is leveling false accusations against the PDP of having alliance with different political forces.
She said both the NC and Congress have gone bankrupt and they have lost argument to take on their opponents which is quite understandable because they have nothing to show to the people except scams, frauds, atrocities, killings, corruption and other nasty acts.
PDP leader said Omar Abdullah now actually wants to convey that vote against NC is vote for Modi. She said in Kashmir the issue basically is who can represent J&K efficiently and sincerely in the Parliament and present the case of State, people boldly in the highest seat of democracy in the country.
Mehbooba said Shopian has suffered immensely during the last more than five years and the ruling party destabilized the whole situation in the area few months after it took over the reins of the state with the rape and murder of two innocent women- Asiya and Neelofar- and latter hushing that case in the most bizarre way.
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