Et Report
Jammu, Feb 25 : Seeking a clear mandate for his party, former Chief Minister and Patron Peoples Democratic Party Mufti Muhammad Sayeed today asserted that Lok Sabha and Assembly polls this year would be a unique opportunity for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, who in past were constantly under the burden of single party dominance.
"People, he said, have a clear choice this time as they have report card of each political party before them.
"The voting this time will not be influenced by slogans but by hard evident performance by different parties". Addressing a well attended public meeting at Patoli Brahmna, here this afternoon, Mufti Sayeed said that emergence of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a credible alternate provides a unique opportunity to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to invest in the vision of development, prosperity and peace.
"Earlier it used to be single dominant party, which had developed monopoly and exploited people for its own political and vested interest but today the people have a choice to accept and reject a political party on the basis of performance and vision", he said. "People, he said, have a clear choice this time as they have report card of each political party before them. "The voting this time will not be influenced by slogans but by hard evident performance by different parties". He said that the state could be poised for a big change on all fronts, if the people give a decisive mandate to PDP.
"The problems, he said, are common to all the regions and people are suffering equally and time has come when a point of conversion has to be found. Unemployed, power deficit, development deficit, ailing health, dilapidated roads and poverty are the common problems of all the areas, particularly of far-flung and backward areas.
"It is the time when we have to built a new discourse and strive hard together in order to built a prosperous Jammu and Kashmir", Sayeed said adding that the state had never any dearth of resources, which could have been utilized to economic and social upliftment. Meanwhile referring to the repeated cuts in Annual Plan allocations, increasing deficit and lapse of funds, Sayeed said that today the scenario seems to be back on square one. He satirically said, "Not much changed in the administration but what has changed is the capacity to deliver." He said that Peoples Democratic Party has the vision to rebuild that capacity in order to provide much needed solace to the people. |
