Apni Party celebrates foundation day
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 8: Apni Party today celebrated its 3rd foundation day anniversary in all the assembly constituencies across the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir. The party marked the occasion with a pledge that it will fulfill its commitments, which it made to the masses on the day of its inception -on March 8, 2020.
These commitments include that the party will strive for the restoration of statehood to J&K, holding of immediate assembly elections and women empowerment.
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While addressing a rally at Sanat Nagar in Srinagar today, Bukhari said that after the foundation of Apni Party, the first challenge before it was to bring a ray of hope in the gloom because the hopelessness in any place always consumes its people with depression. Since the situation at that time was too critical to be ignored, we decided to stand with the people and devised our own strategy to ensure people could feel that someone is there to stand by them. It was a time when people were in ever-darkening gloom because the abrogation of Article 370 had inflicted helplessness and a state of despair on them.
“We shared the pain of the people, but a way had to be found to address their issues as well. Therefore, we decided not to choose confrontational politics. We knew confrontational politics would have not helped the people and also it would have deepened the political vacuum in J&K,” he added.
Bukhari reiterated Apni Party’s demand for holding assembly elections immediately in J&K. “Holding of assembly elections with any further delay, is also important for protecting the democratic credentials of our country. It is a constitutional obligation for the Centre Govt and Election Commission of India (ECI), thus, doing so will not be a risk but a reward for the Govt and ECI,” Bukhari said.
“The people of J&K lost their elected Govt on June 19, 2018. How can it be justified that elections are held in other states and UTs every five years and J&K is nearing five years without having an elected government?”
Senior vice president Ghulam Hassan Mir addressing a rally in Tangmarg said, “From the day one of its inception, Apni Party has been standing by all its commitments, and it will continue to stand by these commitments. When Apni Party started with the promise to fight for the restoration of statehood, we were mocked by some parties and individuals saying that the Centre has already promised that it will restore the statehood to J&K. But, now the same critics have come round to the point that a struggle had to be launched to achieve this goal.”
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