Tributes paid to Mufti Sayeed on death anniversary
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 7: Former Deputy Chief Minister and senior PDP leader, Muzaffar Hussain Baig today admitted that PDP committed some mistakes in the past and there is need to give respect to members and take along all the people within the party.
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Talking to the media-persons at the sidelines of the function organized at the party office here today in connection with the death anniversary of former Chief Minister and founder, Mufti Mohd Sayeed, Baig said, ” We (PDP) committed some mistakes in the past. We will have to go for corrective measures. There is need to give respect to all and also take along all the people. We could not properly accommodate some of the legislators from Jammu, who worked hard to strengthen the party and only focused on Kashmir. But we will go for a review and try to remove all the shortcomings for the revival of the party,” Baig maintained.
While responding to the question with regard to deserting the party by some people, Baig said PDP made some people ministers. What more they can expect. And even then they are leaving the party, it means they are only after power. There may be some resentment among a few but such issues can be tackled within the party by sitting at table. Some might be thinking that PDP has been broken and about to finish, and only NC is emerging powerful and will form Government, they are mistaken. They can not write off the PDP. If not number one, the PDP will certainly be at second place in the next elections. Some people who even do not deserve to be the party activists, were made ministers. But such opportunist people left the party only for the sake of power,” Baig alleged.
On the issue of Mehbooba Mufti visiting the houses of militants, Baig said, no body wants bloodshed in the State. PDP always supported dialogue and believes in restoration of peace. If she goes for condolence it is again a support for restoration of peace and creating atmosphere for dialogue and motivate our youth who have pocked up gun. He said people from Kashmir and even Jammu wants solution of the K-issue and restoration of permanent peace.
Referring to the boycott of Panchayat and Local Bodies elections by PDP in the state, Baigh said the decision of PDP as well as NC was wrong and maintained that he never supported such decision. He avoided to comment on Art 35-A and Ram Temple, saying that issues were sub judice. He also referred to the mistakes committed during 1987 in Kashmir and said such mistakes produced people like Salauddin and Yasin Malik. Such mistakes should not be repeated. He said there is strong resentment among youth in Kashmir. There is need to address the issues and create congenial atmosphere for talk.
Earlier, addressing party workers PDP patron, Baig pitched for the strengthening of the party at the grassroots and urged the functionaries not to go adrift even during the tough ordeals being witnessed at present. He said that the biggest tribute to the PDP founder would be to keep the brotherhood and religious harmony of the state intact and alive and not to allow black sheep to infiltrate into the otherwise tolerant state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The PDP leader welcomed the offer of friendship extended by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan to India, stating that if the relations between the two countries become cordial, it will automatically have a positive impact upon Jammu and Kashmir and that the people of the state could heave a sigh of relief from death, violence and pillage.
Those who spoke on the occasion included TS Bajwa, Ved Mahajan, Fallail Singh, Master Tasaduq, Ch Hameed, Amreek Singh Reen, Sunil Bhat , R K Bali, Abdul Rashid Malik, Ch Hussain Ali Wafa, Satpal Singh Charak, Sukhvinder Singh, Nizam-ud-Din Khatana, Murtaza Khan, Bhushan Lal Dogra, Vijay Dogra Katoch and Surjeet Kour.
Meanwhile, urging National Conference leadership to introspect, Member Legislative Council Firdous Tak today said that the party has betrayed its own cadre and organisation and compromised on every principal for the lust of power.
While paying tributes to Mufti Sayeed in a function at Kishtwar Tak said, “Those who are today questioning our decision to form Government with BJP in Jammu and Kashmir must introspect and come clear before the people. They need to explain that why they have been forming alliance with Congress, the same party which kept Qaid of National Conference Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah behind bars and forced him on knees compromising with every principal he was preaching”.
Tak said, “The hate and lover relationship of National Conference and Congress and the compromises they made for the sake of power has plunged the state into the present morass and crises”.
He said Mufti Sayeed not only provided a political alternate to the people but gave a vision of peace with dignity and prosperity. He gave the state a new thought, which forced every political party including regional organisations to change its rigid attitude and policy towards Kashmir.
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