Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 21: National Conference today expressed its confidence in attaining a clear mandate to govern the State in the forthcoming Assembly elections.
National Conference General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar while addressing delegates and senior activists from Sopore constituency at party headquarters said that the party would fight the Assembly elections on the proven track-record of infrastructural growth and economic development that has been witnessed in all the three regions of the State.
National Conference General Secretary said that the party had deep and perennial ideological roots in the State based on the non-negotiable principles of safeguarding the State’s dignity, regional character and special status and leading the State towards equitable socio-economic development.
“National Conference has been the bulwark that has protected the State’s interests for the last eight decades against all odds and faced with numerous political challenges. We relinquished power when others clung to it. Our party chose prison cells at a time when PDP’s Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was busy eroding Article 370 with G. M. Sadiq. History bears testimony to the fact that National Conference has always upheld the regional aspirations of our people by striving for the restoration of Internal Autonomy and seeking the complete restoration of Article 370 to its original form”, Sagar said.
Addressing the party delegates from Sopore, Ali Mohammad Sagar said Omar Abdullah had emerged as a tall, visionary leader of this generation who broke new ground in areas of power generation, healthcare, rural development, tourism an urban development.
Sagar lauded the Omar Abdullah Government’s performance in the field of healthcare had demonstrated his personal commitment to the welfare of the common man. “200 New Health Institutions of different status and categories have been established in the last five and a half years which includes two new 200-bed Maternity Hospitals, One Super Specialty Hospital, a 200-bed pediatric hospital, up gradation of Lal Ded, SMHS and SKIMS Hospitals, 48 Primary Health Centers, up-gradation of 24 new District Hospitals and numerous mobile medical units that have been deployed in every district of the State. Besides the leaps in infrastructure, the Omar Abdullah government has also engaged more than 7,000 doctors including specialists many of whom are working in some of the most far-flung areas of the State. During PDP rule the sight of a doctor, let alone a specialist doctor in a rural area was an alien concept. We made it happen and the reality is in front of the people”, the NC General Secretary said.
Speaking on the occasion, National Conference Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani said that open revolt and agitations by PDP’s cadre in Sangrama, Tangmarg, Batamaloo, Habba Kadal, Amira Kadal, Baramulla, Tral, Rajpora, Shopian, Kishtwar and numerous other constituencies had brought the party on the verge of panic and fragmentation.
“Senior PDP leaders and workers have expressed their lack of confidence in the party leadership and the candidates it has put forth. There is a constant animosity between the old-guard and the new faces of the party who harbor open contempt for some of the party’s founding leaders. PDP has effectively fractured into two fragment which are at war with each other”, he added.
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