Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 12: Cautioning the Government against any manipulations for political ends in creation of new administrative units, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) today demanded publication of the Mushtaq Ganai report on the subject.
The party president Mehbooba Mufti told a meeting here that by employing the Cabinet Sub Committee for cosmetic meetings on the subject, the Government was apparently up to a mischievous agenda to serve the political interests of some Ministers.
Mehbooba said the Government would invite trouble if it created new administrative units in a secretive, selective and hush hush manner. “We won’t allow them to repeat the fraud that was committed in establishment of health centers recently which has left most deserving areas without the basic medicare but served only the interests of a few influential Ministers,” Mehbooba said.
She said the Mushtaq Ganai Committee report should be made public to seek the opinion of the people instead of holding hurriedly convened cosmetic meetings, by a group of Ministers who even select the audience for such meetings on political considerations in order to seek suggestions convenient to the political agenda of ruling parties. She said some schools were opened and upgraded only in few constituencies represented by some influential Ministers, leaving more genuine claims of other areas unaddressed.
Mehbooba said it was encouraging to see that people from different walks of life are joining the PDP in good number, and reposing faith in the democratic process to find solution of their problems. She said PDP is turning out to be a better alternative for the people as it has proved its credentials both in the Government and in Opposition and it is the party’s endeavor to offer a respectable space for intellectuals, professionals and the youth to help the party to take the state out of the present governance crisis and political uncertainty.
Mehbooba said reason for NC to get jittery over the growing popularity of PDP among all sections of people is because for the first time, they are facing a tough and structured opposition within the system, but the remedy for them is not to criticize the people who joined PDP, but offer a better and more creative atmosphere in that party which, unfortunately, has been sullied by the events like Haji Yousuf episode, Cricket scam, Drug Scam, BOPEE scandal etc. which is repelling people from NC.
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