Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 26: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said after shrinking elsewhere in the State the ruling National Conference was trying to hold on to Srinagar by adopting a strategy of political isolation and official repression.
Addressing a meeting of the party office bearers and prominent workers here, the party president Mehbooba Mufti said while the party has landed the State in serious crisis of governance, it is engaged in dirty tricks to keep Srinagar as a political hostage to stay in contention for power.
Party leaders Naeem Akhtar, Syed Altaf Bukhari and district president Mohammad Ashraf Mir, MLC, also participated in the interaction that discussed the protest program of the party slated for January 5. The party is holding demonstrations at all district headquarters of Kashmir to protest the crisis created by shortage of electricity, gas and rations apart from price rise and victimization of youth on false charges.
Mehbooba said Srinagar was the worst sufferer of NC misrule and emotional exploitation in the past but it continued to play games with the people of the city and was using all unfair means to prevent a political contest to retain its false monopoly. She said thousands of youth had been framed in false cases and in spite of Chief Minister ‘s repeated announcements the cases had not been withdrawn.
Mehbooba said the decades old rule of NC had rendered Srinagar without a democratic voice and whereas rest of the State had achieved the democratic option of choosing their representatives, the boycott politics was promoted by the ruling party to benefit from. She said development process in the city too was guided either by narrow political considerations or the objective of providing contracts to favourite contractors and suppliers with major chunk of funds going into the pockets of politicians. “Even the installation of small amenities like street lights had been politicized,” she alleged.
Referring to the huge unemployment problem Mehbooba said the jobs in government had once again been put on sale. She said in the name of fast tracking of recruitment to nearly 1 lakh Government jobs, a favourite person of rulers had been appointed as a consultant even as he had retired many years back.
Mehbooba said the PDP in its capacity as the main voice of people would continue to focus on problems of the citizens who had become victims of worst governance under the present regime.
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