Excelsior Correspondent
ANANTNAG, Apr 20: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that Jammu & Kashmir is at the crossroads of historic opportunity for change where great hope and promise lies ahead for its people.
Addressing impressive election rallies in Noorabad and Dooru Assembly segments of Anantnag Parliamentary constituency, he said peace and progress in the subcontinent have, probably, been never as critically linked with stability in Jammu & Kashmir as they are today. “Obviously, the future would now solely be determined by the region’s political leadership on how they cope up with the challenge amid fast-changing equations,” he said and added that the people of Jammu & Kashmir are the highest stake-holders in the Indo-Pak peace process.
Mufti said the confidence building process will have an impact on the ground only when conducive atmosphere is created within the State where the people are in control of the things and their life and dignity is not threatened. “This would be possible only when we send strong political representatives both to the Parliament and the State legislature,” he explained and listed the achievements of PDP-led Government between 2002 and 2005. “During our Government, various initiatives were taken in horticulture, tourism, power and education sectors including abolition of toll tax, establishment of fruit mandis, setting up of tourism development authorities, opening of three new universities, adding five campuses to the universities of Kashmir and Jammu, opening 42 degree colleges and upgrading thousands of schools. If people give us the mandate, in our next term focus would be on the development of infrastructure in road communication, health, power, employment generation and social sectors,” he said.
Accusing National Conference of exploiting the people through emotive slogans, Sayeed said instead of going to the people with their report card, the functionaries of the NC-Congress Coalition Government are just beating about the bush. “I am sure that the emancipated people of Kashmir won’t now get carried away by the emotive and propagandist rhetoric of NC leaders and would look for alternative representatives who would serve them better,” he said and challenged the present Government to showcase a single project of public importance that it has accomplished during the past five and a half years of its rule.
He urged the voters to support PDP candidate Mehbooba Mufti by pressing Ink-Pot button on the EVM.
PDP leaders Choudhary Zulfikar-MLA, Peer Mohammad Hussain, Abdul Majid Padroo, Farooq Indrabi, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, Choudhary Gulzar Amad Khatana, Adv Mohd Hussain, Shabir Ah Abdul Razak, Imtiyaz Khatana and others also addressed these rallies.
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