Excelsior Correspondent
BANI (KATHUA), June 28: Seeking support of the people to change destiny of the residents of Jammu and Kashmir, patron of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said that it was his desire to establish a system where every sections of the society would get justice and equal opportunities for development and economic growth.
Addressing a public meeting here, Mufti said that during its tenure the PDP led regime had proved its capability of changing life of the common masses by treating all individual equally and providing equal opportunities to all sections of the society.
He added that PDP led regime had brought transparency and accountability in the governance by strengthening democratic institutions in the State. He especially mentioned that during PDP led regime more than 70,000 youth were appointed as teachers under Rebar-e-Talim (ReT) scheme and more than 30,000 Anganwari workers were also appointed.
“The present regime has miserable failed to do justice with the people as it has not fulfilled any of the promises made with the people during 2008 elections”, he observed, adding “corruption has crossed all limits during the last three and half years because there is no transparency and accountability in the governance”.
Reiterating that attaining power was not the only aim of PDP, Mufti recalled that after 2002 Assembly elections PDP had entered into alliance with Congress when almost all the important demands of the party were incorporated in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP). “Unlike other parties we never compromised with our agenda”, he said and added that agenda of his party was to restore dignity and honour of the people and to provide justice to all sections of the society.
He said that Bani area has huge tourism potential and there was a need to properly exploit tourism of this belt. “Properly utilization of tourism potential of Bani would bring change in the socio-economic conditions of the people of this backward belt”, he said and assured that PDP when come to power, would formulate a comprehensive plan for this belt to change fate of the people of Bani and adjoining localities.
While emphasizing on providing quality education to the people of such backward areas, he asked the authorities to introduce job oriented courses at Degree College Bani so that pass out students from this college would get jobs without any problem.
Pointing towards deplorable conditions of roads, he demanded that on going work on roads connecting Bani with rest of the State should be expedited. He said that work on Basholi-Bani-Bhaderwah road should be accelerated.
Speaking on the occasion, general secretary of PDP Thakur Balbir Singh called upon the people to compare performance of PDP led Government with decades long mis-governance of successive National Conference (NC) regimes. He said that as far as the performance of the present regime was concerned, it appears only on papers and nothing concrete was visible on ground.
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