Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 7: Senior PDP leader and Member of Parliament, Muzzafar Hussain Baig, has said unemployment is the biggest challenge facing the State and job creation will remain thrust area for the next Government likely formed by the party under the leadership of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
Addressing a function at the party headquarters to welcome dozens of prominent NC workers from Sonawari constituency of Baramulla district into the PDP, Baig said youth have been targeted victims of the present coalition and they will need to drive this Government out of office to ensure a fair-deal and a bright future for themselves.
He said the PDP with a decisive mandate would create a firm resource base for the State to be able to fund its infrastructural development and generation of employment. He said, unfortunately, these resources like water and power have, so far, have been bartered away by successive National Conference Governments.
Baig said this Government has made the present and future of thousands of Kashmiri youth bleak by pushing them into alienation and then using repressive measures to create an impression of peace.
Further, he added, NC has historically been survived on false promises and emotional exploitation by raising slogans like Plebiscite and Autonomy. Since these slogans have no buyers now in the changed circumstances they are trying to sell Government jobs, administrative units and pipe dreams even though they are not able to pay salaries to the existing employees.
He said Omar Abdullah’s Government because of its sheer inefficiency and non-seriousness has not been able to utilize thousands of crores of funds as the Central Government assistance over the last more than five years. Most of the funds made available to the State have either been swindled or surrendered, he added.
Speaking on the occasion the party’s chief spokesperson, Naeem Akhtar said PDP during its brief tenure in the Government scripted a new chapter of peace and development in the State and the party not only revived people’s trust in the democratic institutions, but set an example of honesty and transparency in the Governance system.
Senior party leaders Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari, Abdul Hameed Kohsheen; Yasir Reshi and youth leader Advocate Irshad Singh were also present on the occasion.
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