Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 12: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said the present coalition has broken all records of corruption by previous NC Governments and landed the state in its worst administrative crisis.
Rounding off the tour of Kupwara district with a workers meeting in Zachaldara of Handwara constituency today former Deputy Chief Minister and senior leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig said the NC led coalition had struck the State like a natural calamity.
Baig said the present Government had converted corruption into broad day dacoity with most ruling politicians facing serious charges of involvement in murder, fraud, nepotism and landgrabbing. This had resulted in a unique situation in which nobody was in a position to question the other he said, adding they had now found safety in coming to each other’s rescue in times of need.
He said the dissolution of the house panel constituted to probe allegations of land grab against a Minister represented the lowest point in moral decadence of a Government. “Everyone will henceforth feel free to indulge in loot as all institutional vigilance has been demolished. The legislature is the latest victim and most powerful institution to be trampled by the present Government” Baig said.
He said the Chief Minister had lost all moral authority after the Haji Yusuf incident in which his own name and that of Dr Farooq Abdullah figured around transaction of money for granting party mandates and Ministerial berths. This was followed by the cricket scam in which Dr Farooq Abdullah is in the dock in a multicrore swindle which saw money meant for promoting sports going into the pockets of the Cricket association bosses.
Baig said the Government machinery and institutions instead of being allowed to conduct independent probe were used to protect the ruling family from legal scrutiny. “Omar Abdullah is now only repaying the debt he owes all those politicians and officials who supported and protected him then and he will continue in that weak moral position for his entire political career”, he said.
The former Deputy Chief Minister said on the one hand Government leaders indulged in loot of resources and on the other the governance had become a nightmare for the common man. He said the Government had failed on all fronts and it was a matter of shame that Central funds allocated to J&K were now diverted to north eastern States because of our inability to spend.
The unlimited funds available for universalization of education could have transformed the State into the most developed human resource bank but the Government’s inability to utilize them had resulted in huge setback to the schemes like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Sakhshar Bharat. “Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as the Minister incharge could not escape direct responsibility in this”, Baig said.
Referring to the problems of youth, Baig said the NC had historically exploited them on emotional issues without doing anything for their growth. He said the party was treating everybody in the State as a beggar and the latest instance was denying the youth their allowance for voluntary service under the much touted policy for employment of youth the Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY).
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