Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 12: Senior PDP leader and Member Parliament, Tariq Hameed Karra today said the boycott politics has not only disempowered Srinagar politically but it has also become a tool for mainstream parties like National Conference (NC) and some opportunistic politicians to manipulate polls in their favour.
Addressing a series of election meetings on the last day of campaigning in Srinagar, Karra said remaining aloof from the democratic processes has not only resulted in massive developmental deficit in this historic city, but has ensured systemic political disempowerment of its inhabitants as well. “But this time around poll boycott is loaded with bigger political danger looming not only over Srinagar but whole of Kashmir as BJP and its proxies are going to use it as a tool for tactical rigging in their favour,” he said and added that ironically if such a scenario emerges after polls, the separatists will be seen as contributors in installing a BJP Government in the State. I leave it to the conscience of the separatists and wisdom of emancipated voters of Srinagar to see through the designs of New Delhi’s proxies and cronies who tried to use boycott politics as a tool to manipulate the polls in various parts of Kashmir,” Karra said.
Karra said it is because of NC’s exploitative politics that the successive generations of our people had to suffer worst kind of disempowerment, deprivation, violence and powerlessness. He said it was for the people to judge the performance of different parties and leaders. “Though PDP had been in the field only for less than a decade, this party has brought changes of fundamental nature into the State’s political and economic system,” he added.
Alleging that flood victims of Srinagar got nothing except lip-service from the present regime, Karra said that only a strong and stable Government headed by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed can put a comprehensive relief and rehabilitation mechanism in place for the flood-affected people.
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