Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 27: PDP president, Mehbooba Mufti today said that misdeeds and malpractices have made the National Conference leadership vulnerable to a level that they are not able to negotiate anything good for the benefit of State and people.
Addressing various roadside meetings in Hazratbal segment of Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, Mehbooba said that that party (NC) that could not get a mobile service for its State is now claiming to restore the Autonomy and defend Article 370 which is clearly beyond it.
“They (NC) can never take a stand on the rights of the State and its people but resort to rhetorics at the time of elections to impress voters and later kneel before anybody who is in the power at the Centre,’ she said.
“During his days in the NDA Government at the Centre, Dr Farooq Abdullah failed to persuade the Centre to start the mobile service in the State not to talk about Autonomy and other things. It was Mufti Sayeed who made it clear to Atal Bihari Vajpayee that Kashmiris too have a right to communicate through mobile telephony and told him that everything in Kashmir should not be looked through the security prism,” she said.
Mehbooba said Omar Abdullah instead of working to build on the gains of the PDP-led Government, reversed everything and also by way of his inefficiency and lack of any goodwill helped to further the alienation among people particularly the youth.
She said Omar Abdullah banned SMS services, put gag on cable TV and harassed the local press for telling the truth so many times during his more than five years of misrule.
“Dr Farooq Abdullah who is involved in the multimillion cricket scam should have been in the jail if he would have been a politician of any other part of the country. And, similarly, if Haji Yousuf episode would have happened in any other Chief Minister’s home he would had faced the law,” she said.
Mehbooba said it is encouraging to see the people have now understood the politics of the NC which has not only been deceitful but has been always focused towards power. “There is a growing realization on the ground that it is the NC which has damaged the basic cause of Kashmiris by always tilting towards power and not seriously pursuing the interests of people from whom it has been taking votes from the last 65 years,” she said.
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