Mir Farhat
Srinagar, Oct 30: A conglomerate of various political parties with Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretary, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami and MLA Hakeem Mohammad Yasin as its members today floated a new platform under the banner of People’s United Front (PUF) today.
Announcing the formation of the Front in a convention at Municipal Park here, Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretary, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said Jammu and Kashmir needed a new, broader, alternate platform of politics and policies to push it out of the present quagmire.
“This (PUF) is the beginning of that platform where people with dividing ideas and ideologies need to work together. It is not the platform of only the seven parties that attended the convention. We will appeal intellectuals, civil society and other like-minded political parties to join the new platform to take up the issues facing the people and make administrators accountable,” Tarigami said, talking to reporters after the convention.
Tarigami denied the Front has been floated at the directions of the Congress Party or any other agency in view of the Assembly and Parliamentary elections, or get rid of the dynastic parties in the State.
When asked whether they were trying to rope in other political groups of Sajad Lone and Er Rashid, the CPI (M) leader said “definitely they would attempt to reach out to all political groups to join the new platform”.
The Chairman People’s Democratic Front, Hakim Muhammad Yasin, Sheikh Abdul Rehman (Samajwadi Party), Sanjay Saraf (Lok Jana Shakti Party), Abdul Rehman Tukru (CPI), and Chairman JKNDF Abdul Rashid Kabuli are part of the PUF.
PDF chairman Hakeem Mohammad Yasin claimed the Front has been formed to realistically work for the people of the State who have been exploited by hollow promises made since 1947.
Yasin said the Front has been formed to provide political strength, progress and development, and dignified resolution of the Kashmir issue.
Sanjay Saraf flayed the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for disappointing the Kashmiri youth, who had seen him as a ray of hope after Omar took over the charge Chief Minister of the State. “But, Omar has disappointed them due to inaction against the culprits involved into the killing of 120 youth in 2010”. He said there was no accountability in the State and innocent youth were implicated in false cases.
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