Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 8: The main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said the alleged worsening governance and security situation in the State created a dangerous mix that could assume unpredictable dimensions and direction.
Cautioning the people against this grim situation, the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti and senior leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig urged them to direct their resentment along democratic and peaceful channels alone.
They were addressing a public meeting at Villgam in Handwara constituency of Kupwara district today.
The two leaders said the State has suffered too much and too long as a result of the policies and mis-governance of successive National Conference (NC) Governments.
But, they alleged, this Government takes the cake even by their own standards.
They said the disturbances in 2010 were a result of governance deficit as was admitted by the UPA Government at the Centre itself, of which the State coalition is a part.
It was hoped the Omar Abdullah Government would learn its lessons and set governance right but it seems his survival on crutches has only made him more arrogant giving him a misconceived notion of invincibility, they said.
‘In a democratic set up no body is above the will of the people and PDP is going to establish this principle firmly in the State with support of the people’ Ms Mehbooba said.
She said the Government was creating a pressure cooker situation in the State by remaining insensitive to development needs of all areas which could lead to an explosion.
She said Government was responding to serious issues of development with either false promises or police action. Even a sombre and sad occasion like the burning of Dastgeer Sahib which pained everyone is being responded to with police action against countless youth taking the repressive tactics for survival to the lowest level, she said.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig alleged the present coalition had specialized in making two things—money and announcements.
It seems their motto was only to fill personal pockets, make fortunes in and outside the State and try to keep people happy with announcements or silenced through force.
While the ministers are busy making money, the administration is directionless with the efficient and honest sidelined and favourite fixers ruling the roost.
‘Some of the ministers and ruling politicians are now among the richest members of the society even though they have had a humble background before joining politics’ he said and added that the vigilance and accountability structure created by the previous government had virtually been dismantled.
But, he said, people had seen through their game and now every section of the society was on the streets demonstrating for one thing or the other and they would refuse in future to fall prey to their tactics.
Mr Baig said the people must try to benefit from the emergence of PDP as a viable alternative to the NC that had held a monopoly over decades.
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