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| 2014 offers historic opportunity to change system: Mufti | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Apr 17: Urging the people of Srinagar to vote for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party patron, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today said 2014 offers a historic opportunity for the state to defeat the vested interests that have held it captive for several decades.
He said the unchallenged dominance of NC for most part of the last century has resulted in complete degeneration of that party making it unable to either provide voice to the people or take care of their needs.
"NC has now become a power broking agent that sells the interests of the state and its people for its share of power and luxury. Hence this party has lost its representative character and credibility and is on a life support system which would not last long." said Mufti.
Referring to the repeated U-turns of NC to stay in power, Mufti said in1996 they sought votes in the name of autonomy and then went straight into the lap of BJP which has declared abrogation of Article 370 as one of its main objectives.
He said NC had a record 60 members in the state assembly and it had no compulsions to join the NDA, but it sacrificed the confidence and faith of the people just for Omar Abdullah to become a junior minister in the BJP-led government.
Even the NDA could have run its government without the participation of NC but strangely Farooq Abdullah decided to gatecrash into the BJP -led coalition even in the face of opposition from their own ranks, Mufti said and recalled how Saif-u-Din Soz was thrown out of the NC for voting against the first NDA government, which brought that down. Mufti said all the alliance of NC have been without a political purpose or development goals, whether in 1986 Rajiv-Farooq coalition or NDA time or now in the Rahul-Omar alliance, the sole purpose has been somehow to secure power and keep Kashmir deprived of democratic rights and its due share in the development.
He said out of 126 persons killed in 2010 by Omar Abdullah government most of the victims belong to Srinagar. Thousands have been involved in multiple police cases and an entire generation has been labeled as stone-pelters, drug addicts, LeT agents, criminals etc.
"But we considered Srinagar as heart of Kashmir that must be in good shape for the entire region to feel good," he said.
Mufti said the initiatives taken by his government had unfortunately been abandoned by Omar Abdullah government in spite of the fact that it owed its existence to the eight seats in Assembly from the city.
He said the PDP's main thrust would be to upgrade the representation of the state in the parliament.
He said the irresponsible statements made by the present MP, DrFarooq Abdullah which branded every Kashmiri as 'MahaChors' should be taken seriously.
"Would any state leader dare to utter such words about his own people and then come to seek their votes," Mufti said and added I know the people of Kashmir are noble in their attitude but they will hold to account anybody who tries to defame them in rest of the world. |
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