Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 3: Stressing on the need of the people’s involvement in the electoral process, senior PDP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzzafar Hussain Baig has said it is only through the sensible use of vote the destiny of J&K can be changed.
Addressing various roadside meetings in Sangrama segment, Baramulla Parliamentary constituency, he called upon the people particularly the youth to understand the importance of vote in order to get rid of their miseries and help the State to be back on the rails. “Vote is a powerful weapon available before the people who need to be honoured as it represents their voice in the democratic setup,” he added.
Baig said the anger of people is genuine as National Conference has always misused their mandate for its trivial political benefits instead of giving voice to their sentiments within the system. But, he said, it is the institution of vote only which could guarantee a larger change on the ground if it used consciously to elect sincere and trusted leadership to the Parliament and Assembly.
Baig said the PDP which had only got 16 members in 2002 changed the political and governance discourse in the State as it was the commitment and sincerity of the party’s leadership towards its people which made it happen but the NC has only got disaster to the State besides getting overwhelming support of the people.
He said cynicism among the people is direct result of the bad policies of the NC which it has been resorting to from the last many decades in order to remain in power. “The PDP during its brief tenure made a remarkable beginning to build the people’s trust in the system, but that everything got reversed soon after the NC-led Government took over the reins of the State,” said Baig.
“Now the people have to make a clear choice and decide whether they want to get Kashmir out of the mess or want suffer under the anti-people policies of the NC,” he said adding that PDP was fighting Parliamentary elections not just to seek power for itself but it will fight to build a national consensus on Kashmir issue.
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