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| Noted broadcaster turns politician | | Nayeema Mehjoor joins PDP | | Bashir Assad
Srinagar, Jan10 : Taking clue from her fellow colleagues Basharat Bukhari (MLA, Sangrama) and Ghulam Nabi Ratnipuri (MP Rajya Sabha), veteran broadcaster and writer, Nayeema Mehjoor today joined Peoples Democratic Party, she was welcomed in the party fold by none other than PDP Patron Mufti Muhammad Sayed and President Mehbooba Mufti.
Belonging to the privileged class of peers, Nayeema is the daughter-in-law of a famous Kashmiri poet Ghulam Ahmad Mehjoor and wife of Sayed Abdal Ahmad Mehjoor. Nayeema was associated with BBC Urdu service in London till recent past and has been writing on Kashmir politics for a long time.
Welcoming Nayeema into the party fold, Mufti said the appearance of the PDP on the political sphere of Jammu and Kashmir changed the political discourse in the state and helped a great deal to end the monopoly of a single party, and helped competitive
democratic exercise that not only provided people an alternative but resulted in generation of hope and reduction of distress in a substantial measure.
He said there is a common thinking around the world and in the country now that people with integrity need to join the politics in making the change happen on the ground and to ensure good governance. PDP, Mufti said, believes that politics can only be made people friendly only when professionals like Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor will make it a point that they will use their creative potential in changing the environment around us which is full with uncertainty and suspicion. The PDP patron said time has now come that such people will realise the urge for change and contribute in a great deal to help in PDP in completing its unfinished agenda of the political resolution and empowerment of people. He said PDP during its brief stint in the government took some bold political and economical initiatives that not only helped to see a change on the ground but ensured a sense of security for the people who had gone through huge hardships because of the siege around.
He said opening of borders for travel and trade got India and Pakistan close to each other and the distrust prevailing between the two nations was minimized by the
initiative. He said the historical ceasefire between the two nations changed the held perception that things can't be changed. Mufti said a transparent and accountable governance system was made possible and in the recruitment and selection processes merit was preferred.
He said it was with the help of our officers and officials in the government PDP could provide a clean governance system.
"The party couldn't have got the generous funding from the centre or the Asian Development Bank, if we would not have been able to encourage them (officers and officials) to deliver," said Mufti adding different security agencies were wary of even starting mobile services in the state, not to talk about the historical measure of opening of the Line of Control.
Speaking on the occasion Nayeema said it was a difficult decision to enter politics. "Situation in the Valley is worsening at all levels. We need positive politics to find solutions to every problem the state faces," she said adding people have to come together and take the state towards peace and prosperity. |
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