Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 9: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti has said her party values public endorsement of its agenda and its performance in Govt and in Opposition as its real achievement and treats power only as a necessity to implement its long term vision.
Addressing party workers conventions at Pampore and Rajpora, she said the party’s struggle for improvement in the life of the residents of the State would continue and it hopes that 2014 would provide it with an opportunity to pick up threads again from where it had left during the previous coalition.
Mehbooba said “though the three years of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s rule” has become a reference point for good governance and relief provided to the people, the party would strive for higher objectives if given a chance with a stronger mandate. “The people of the State have time and again given overwhelming support and huge majority to the NC which only let them down with disastrous fall out. But the performance of the PDP has provided an opportunity to the people to realise how even a brief tenure by another party and its leadership could actually transform the entire environment from despair to hope and bring positive change in every bodies life” she said and expressed the hope that the people will vote on the basis of performance and not on emotional slogans.
Mehbooba said it is unfortunate that the NC leadership after having failed in fulfilling all their promises of good governance and development have reverted to their old tactics of raising hollow slogans which have lost meaning in the changed context. She said though it is obvious that this slogan mongering would not make any impact on the mood of the voters which obviously favours a change, it definetly widens the gulf between the citizens of the State and rest of the country.
Mehbooba said the PDP has a pragmatic and positive agenda for resolution of the external and internal dimensions of Kashmir issue, some features of which infact are already under implementation. “We stand for opening of all the traditional routes to end the siege of the State and have an outstanding performance to our credit on this important front. We never asked for votes on the promise of opening ‘the Rawalpandi road’ but actually facilitated it before the world even knew about it”, she added.
Mehbooba said the ‘life saving’ slogans of NC have always resulted in creating a trust deficit between the State and rest of the country. This has resulted in a situation in which everyone looks at us with suspicion,” she said adding for chair’s sake NC won’t even hesitate in striking relationships of any kind.
“Hundreds of youth are killed in shooting on the streets without even a single case being investigated much less punished but fiery speeches are made on the issue of AFSPA. Why can’t this Government set an example by setting its own house in order? But everybody knows that the Government that could not withdraw fake cases against thousands of youth can do little on more serious issues” said Mehbooba while pointing out that speeches do not make up for action and performance.
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