Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 4: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said National Conference (NC) was once again trying to take people for a ride and insulting their intelligence by blaming its political rivals for its own historical sins.
Responding to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s latest diatribe against the opposition for his own failure in giving the State a clean and performing administration, the party president Mehbooba Mufti in a statement said this strategy has already failed to impress the people as they are aware of how NC has flourished. only on absence of a viable alternative which it always crushed through deceit, bullying, muscle power and emotional exploitation.
“NC is frustrated only as it has been denied a free run with the emergence of PDP and finds fault with a decade old party in spite of having itself remained in power and political command for better part of nearly one century with disastrous results,” she added.
Mehbooba said NC always tried to push political rivals out of the democratic system by resorting to strong arm methods as it did immediately after independence by sending into exile the leading lights of freedom movement like Maulvi Yousuf Shah Saheb and hundreds of other workers who could have provided a democratic alternative to it.
Urging the Chief Minister to get his facts corrected, Mehbooba said, he is making his already unenviable position more awkward by repeating the baseless allegation that PDP was formed to scuttle the autonomy resolution passed by the State legislature.
Mehbooba said the NC destroyed the dignity, authority and self respect of the State and it’s highest elected institution when it pocketed the insult of the resolution being thrown virtually into the dustbin by its allies in Delhi and Farooq and Omar continued to serve on the proverbial ‘same salary’.
She said in its current affiliation with the Congress, Omar Abdullah’s party set new records of making compromises on State interests at every stage.
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