Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 14: Newly appointed Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Ghulam Ahmed Mir today said that the PDP-BJP Government would not last long in the State as the two partners are “mired in controversies” from the day it assumed office.
“Congress party believes that the Coalition Government will not last long in the State as the two partners are more involved in creating controversies within than addressing public issues,” Ghulam Ahmad Mir told reporters at the party headquarters after a rousing welcome by the party supporters.
Mir said that the coalition partners are pursuing their respective political agendas than governance. “Congress was expecting that the two parties will come up with a big agenda for people of the State, but it looks they are more into politics between them than pursuing peoples issues,” he said.
“Looking at such an uncertain situation within the Government, it seems it will break soon,” he said.
Mir was pointing out towards the controversies that erupted between PDP and BJP following the release of Muslim League leader, Masrat Alam and Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed’s crediting Pakistan and Hurriyat Conference outfits for high turnout in Assembly elections.
Taking further dig at the Government, Mir said the two coalition partners are “two riders on a horse pulling its reins in opposite directions.”
On summoning of the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by CBI for questioning in coal bloc scam, the Congress president said that it is done at the behest of BJP Government.
“It is political witch-hunting by BJP to defame Manmohan Singh’s honest and credible character before the world. Congress condemns such an approach by the BJP,” he said.
On the release of political prisoners, Mir said that a proper screening of the cases of political prisoners should be done and then they should be released. “Release of political prisoners should not be a political priority,” he said.
On opposition to the release of Masrat Alam by the Congress party at the Centre, Mir said that roles change for a party when it is in opposition and Government.
“Such posturing is a matter of time. While in Government a party has a different role, but in opposition our position has changed,” he said.
Earlier, before his address there was chaos among the Congress supporters at the headquarters as some of its senior members shouted angrily at the dais for not being given a seat. Upon this Mir said that he will end factionalism and groupism in the party.
“Groupism won’t be tolerated within the party and each worker has to work for the unification of the divided party,” he said.
Former PCC president Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz, Peerzada Mohd Syed and Taj Mohi-ud-Din, all former Ministers, accompanied G A Mir to the PCC headquarters.
Senior leaders of the party including senior functionaries of PCC, frontal organizations PYC, Mahila Congress, Seva Dal & INTUC, DCC presidents, ex-Ministers, legislators and prominent activists and hundreds of workers greeted Mir, who arrived here for the first time, after being appointed as PCC chief.
Prominent among others present on the occasion included Mohd Muzaffar Parray MLC, Ghulam Nabi Monga- MLC, Mohd Anwar Bhat, Abdul Gani Khan, Haji Abdul Rashid, Usman Majeed, Gulzar Ahmad Wani, Mohd Amin Bhat- MLA and Gulam Nabi Mir Lasjan.
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