Excelsior Correspondent
CHADOORA, Dec 3: National Conference has said that Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s comments about by-passing the State Legislature in extending the National Food Security Act to the State was a clear sign of PDP’s covert understanding with the BJP to completely undermine the State’s special status.
While addressing a party convention at Chadoora in Central Kashmir NC general secretary Ali Mohd Sagar and provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani said that Mufti Sayeed’s statement that “there was no need for legislation” and that the Central Act would be directly extended to J&K was unprecedented and shocking.
They said NC had demanded ration distribution according to the 2011 census and the party had left no stone unturned to highlight this demand. “We have always represented the aspirations and grievances of the people and we will continue to strive for their best interests. The political interests and rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be compromised with. Mufti Sahib’s remarks about by-passing the State Legislature have created panic across the State and is being seen as the first brazen self-admission by PDP of being hand-in-glove with the BJP in a plan to divest the State of its Special Status”, they added.
“The PDP-BJP Government of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed continues to alienate the youth of the State as there is an enormous political vacuum since we have a Government and a Chief Minister who have effectively sidelined all core political issues. The political narrative is conspicuously missing and that can have far-reaching adverse implications on the prospects of safety and stability in J&K. All political promises made by the PDP stand abandoned by them by those promises about the return of power projects, promises about rehabilitating the flood victims, promises about revocation of AFSPA or the promise of going for an alleged ‘battle of ideas’ with the separatist leadership – most of whom have been persecuted, incarcerated and politically ostracized by the PDP-BJP Government”, Mr Sagar said.
Nasair Aslam Wani lashed out at the PDP-BJP Govt for trying to undermine the constitutional sanctity of the J&K Legislative Assembly by volunteering to surrender its role in scrutinizing the extension of Central Acts into the State through a mirror J&K Bill proposed in the State Legislature – as has been the practice in the past. “This is a big statement with tragic, alarming connotations. Mufti has a long track-record of playing pivotal roles in eroding Article 370 as a part of various dispensations and parties and this statement is in line with that anti-J&K conviction he has always nurtured within his heart. National Conference will not allow the PDP-BJP nexus to sideline or disrespect the constitutional mandate of the Legislative Assembly at any cost”, Wani said.
The convention was also addressed by NC leader and Central Zone President MLC Ali Mohammad Dar and NC District president for Budgam, Manzoor Ahmed Wani besides various senior party workers and activists.
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