Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 30 : People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti has said the only achievement of the present coalition is its survival merely on the strength of numbers in the Assembly and external lifelines otherwise people are fed up with its non performance, mis governance and corruption.
Addressing a meeting of party workers of Beerwa constituency at Kanihama today she said present Government lacked credibility Ms Mehbooba said credibility of a Government comes through its leadership, vision, agenda and its execution and the present Government lacks all these vital elements. It is a coalition of the vested interests that is led by a party which has become the most unpopular ruling organization in the history of the State. She said the NC had for decades existed as the only option for people who had not been able to experience difference in governance and delivery. But the emergence of PDP and its brief stint in power had exposed people to a new experience.
Mehbooba said it is a matter of satisfaction for her and the party leadership that the people are looking up to PDP with great expectations. But, at the same time it gives her over whelming feeling of challenge as the State is faced with immense problems on political and development fronts. She said her party has an agenda and avision that is practical and had been partly initiated on ground under the previous PDP- Congress coalition. She said her party’s vision is to take the state forward as a vibrant economic and developmet model.
“We are very clear about how to tackle the problems of poverty, unemployment, power deficiency, institutional decay and environmental issues and it is a good sign that people have now realized that PDP alone could take the state out of its problems on political and economic fronts”, she added.
Referring to the unemployement problem Mehbooba said the so called Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme failed to provide relief to any one except a few hand picked favourites of ruling politicians. She said this Government has re-employed around three hundred retired persons just to keep politicians happy. On the other hand thousands of dailywagers have been retrenched after having put in amny years of service.
Mehbooba said the media, CAG and the union ministers, all have pointed out how the NC led government has failed to implement all centrally sponsored schemes like MNREGA, PMGSY, and schemes in education and other sectors. The so called historic initiatives that the government propagandists and ministers boast of remain confined to announcements, papers and the pockets of ruling politicians and their agents, she said.
Hussian Ansari (MLA) and Dr Mohd Shafi Wani also spoke on the occasion.
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