Excelsior Correspondent
Ramban, June 17: Urging people to vote for the Congress Party in upcoming Assembly elections to bring back an era of development which he started as Chief Minister of State, the senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad today said that his party suffered in the Parliamentary elections due to communal vote polarization.
Azad is on a four-day tour of Chenab valley to express his gratitude to the people of the region who voted for him in huge numbers inspite of an insalubrious atmosphere created by divisive forces.
Maintaining that people of State in general and Chenab valley in particular, have always showered love and affection on him and have reciprocated to his pitch of giving voice and space to their urges and aspirations, Mr Azad said that backward, far flung and hilly areas were brought for the first time on the developmental landscape during his tenure as Chief Minister, a fact which is acknowledged by the people of the State.
He stated that he has roadmap and vision for the development of State- a roadmap which will lead to faster growth, generation of employment for the youth- our biggest treasure, and empowerment and development of far-flung and remote areas like Pir Panjal & Chenab valley.
He said that his only ‘mission’ has been to remove the scourge of poverty and backwardness from the State like he successfully attempted to eradicate polio from the country and that his endeavour in this direction will continue unabated till his last breath.
Azad assured that all the developmental projects which he started in his tenure during the Coalition Government would be completed in shortest possible time if his party emerges in power in State again and that same spree of development and people-friendly governance will be witnessed once again.
Comparing the developmental approach of his Government with other regimes, he said the Congress Party initiated the mega infrastructural projects when he was the Chief Minister of State and that people are the best judges of the performance of the respective Governments.
“Although Congress Government in the larger interests of people ensured liberal funding for the State and approved number of developmental projects, the prevailing regime has virtually defeated all the schemes as most of the projects are moving at snail’s pace,” he said while addressing the thousands of people in Ramban.
Urging people to remain united in the upcoming Assembly elections to defeat the communal forces, Azad said Congress Party lost in the Parliamentary elections due to communal card played by some parties.
He, however, thanked the people in general who voted him and who didn’t in Parliamentary elections. “Those people who voted for us, reposed their faith in Congress Party & myself, and those who didn’t vote provided me a chance to become the ‘leader of opposition’ in Rajya Sabha, a position equivalent to that of a Union Cabinet Minister,” he said.
He said that people-friendly and youth-oriented policies and programmes become symbol of governance during his regime, but unfortunately after that, things have moved at a slower pace because of which our youth, in particular are deeply disenchanted.
He was accompanied by the Minister for R&B, Abdul Majid Wani, Minister of State for Power, Vikar Rasool, MLA Ramban, Ashok Kumar and other senior leaders of the party.
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