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Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 22: Unfazed by defection of some senior party leaders, cadre of People’s Democratic Party seems to be optimistic to perform well in the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
Enthusiasm among cadre can be gauged from the fact that majority of the speakers who spoke in the meeting, which was convened today to announce candidate for Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seat, asserted that there was strong wave in favour of PDP in hilly areas.
Mufti Sayeed announced Arshad Malik of Batote as party candidate for Doda-Udhampur Parliamentary Seat. Malik has remained in National Conference for about 40 years but joined PDP, few months ago.
Speakers did not mention even a single word on defection of senior leaders including general secretary of the party Thakur Balbir Singh, who had joined Congress on Monday. Majority of the speakers did not gave much importance to the such developments and assured Mufti Mohammad Sayeed that PDP would perform beyond expectations in the coming elections.
Mufti while addressing the meeting also avoided speaking any word regarding defection of some of party's stalwarts. His address revolved around prevailing situation on the borders.
Cautioning against allowing escalation of violence on the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB), patron of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti called upon political leadership of both India and Pakistan to show greater magnanimity at this juncture and work for silencing roaring guns on the borders and replacing the war cries with talks of friendship and peace.
Instead of resorting to the blame game or being jingoistic with slogans of "strong retaliated actions" being raised by some forces, the political leadership of the two countries must assert on this occasion to resume the snapped process of composite dialogue for resolving all their disputes including these ceasefire violations through peaceful, undisrupted and sustainable negotiations", Mufti said.
He said that both New Delhi and Islamabad must talk to each other realizing the dangerous consequences of any escalation of confrontation. Peace between the two countries is crucial for stability, progress and economic prosperity of the region. Both the countries should have to snub those elements who have been raising senseless highly dangerous war hysteria", he said and reminded that every war between India and Pakistan was followed by dialogue so there was no reason for both the countries to allow escalation of skirmishes on the borders. Later a resolution was passed in the meeting in which party emphasized on maintaining sanctity of ceasefire so as to restore peace on the borders. There is need for sanity to prevail on the borders by taking steps to put an immediate end to incidents of violence along the borders and respect the sanctity of the ceasefire enforced since 2003", the resolution demanded and pointed out people of Jammu and Kashmir have high stakes in peace because they are the worst sufferers of hostility between two neighbouring countries. The escalation of hostilities, which have the ominous potential of leading to a full-scale bloody war and perpetuation of conflict is not in the interests of the common people of the two neighbouring countries, who have been suffering the brunt of this conflict for the past over 60 years and have a stake in peace, the resolution said.
Prominent among others present on the occasion included MLC, Yashpal Sharma, former MP, Trilok Singh Bajwa, former Legislators, Ved Mahajan and Shanti Devi, PDP state secretary, Falail Singh, Daman Bhasin, Mehboob Iqbal and Jagjit Singh Jagga. |
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