Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 10: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti, said that PDP has been able to inspire confidence, among majority of the people in all the regions of the State, about its ability to solve the multiple problems faced by Jammu and Kashmir on political, economic, administrative and financial front.
Addressing a meeting of the prominent leaders, office bearers, and workers of North Kashmir today, she said the party, with a decisive mandate, will carry forward its agenda of political resolution, good governance and employment generation and convert J&K into a real welfare State.
Mehbooba said from political, administrative and financial mess that the present coalition Government has pushed the State into the new challenges, can be addressed if the PDP, under Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, gets a clear mandate from the people. She said vision, of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed about the resolution of political problems of the State, is already underway after the historic initiatives of 2003.
The PDP chief, who represents South Kashmir in Lok Sabha, said the Prime Minister- Vajpayee’s bold initiatives were possible under Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. Till then his (Vajpayee’s) ally Government led by NC in the State, with a majority of 60 members in the Assembly, had compromised on already every issue ranging from recommendation of bombing Pakistan to banning of new schools, recruitment to Government jobs, banning shahtoosh and handing over the best power projects to the Centre.
Mehbooba said the Lok Sabha elections have provided a credible platform for the workers and cadres of the party to build for a decisive mandate from the people. “Instead of breeding over-confidence or complacence, it should inspire us to reach out to all sections of society and those who still are not convinced about our intentions and agenda need to be approached with humility.”
She said the political subversion and uncertainty that the State has faced in the last seven decades has already taken a heavy toll on the State, its economy and human resources and it can ill afford any further disruption and the attempts being made currently by some quarters to squeeze the space for its residents will have to be met with maturity, wisdom, collective action and democratic assertion of our rights.
Mehbooba said the credentials of the PDP, in the Government and in opposition, are impressive and any comparison of this party with NC is not only out of place, but patently unfair.
Mehbooba said the doors of the PDP are open for all the people who have good of the State at heart, and it was positive that professionals and non-professional people who have distinguished themselves in different fields are joining the party in large numbers in all the regions.
She said the prospects of a rout in the coming elections have frustrated the Government and it is employing all tricks to somehow survive on the political landscape. Mehbooba said the NC-led Government is trying to employ strong arm methods against the officials and the workers of the PDP to harass them into submission on the other hand they are making false promises, fake and funny foundation laying and ribbon cutting ceremonies and inventing new methods of selling non-existent jobs.
Speaking on the occasion the party general secretary, Mohammad Dilawar Mir, said the PDP is strong enough to take up the emerging challenges, posed by the different forces in the State, head-on, but for that the party cadres have to work hard on the ground and make a close liaison with the people. “There are forces active on ground with dangerous agenda to divide the people on the name of religion and region and their every attempt has to be defeated with firmness,” he said.
Nizam-ud-Din Bhat, Abdul Haq Khan, Sofi Gh Mohi U Din, Javid Hussain Baig, Zaffar Iqbal Manhas, Naeem Akhtar, Mohammad Yasir Reshi, Fayaz Ahmad Mir, Mohammad Abbas Wani and others were also present on the occasion.
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