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| NC has lost moral authority, courage to speak up for people: Mehbooba | | |
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Apr 27: Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti has said misdeeds and malpractices have made the National Conference leadership vulnerable to a level that they are not able to negotiate anything good for the benefit of state, people.
Addressing various roadside meetings in Hazratbal segment of Srinagar parliamentary constituency, Mehbooba said a party (NC) that could not get a mobile services for its state is now claiming to restore the Autonomy and defend Article 370 which is clearly beyond it. She said the leaders who face serious charges against themselves have neither any moral authority nor the courage to speak up for the people as they realize their vulnerability and are comfortable with the luxuries of power. She said they can never take a stand on the rights of the state and its people but resort to rhetorics at the time of elections to impress voters and later kneel before anybody who is in the power at the Centre.
On this occasion among others senior party leaders, Asiya Naqash, A R Kuchay and local leader Mohammad Sidiq Mir were present.
"During his days in the NDA government at the Centre Dr Farooq Abdullah failed to persuade the Centre to start the mobile service in the state not to talk about Autonomy and other things. But it was Mufti Mohammad Sayeed who made it clear to Atal Bihari Vajpayee that Kashmiris too have a right to communicate through mobile telephony and told him that everything in Kashmir should not be looked through the security prism," she said and added the NC till date failed to get any benefit for the people.
She said Dr Farooq Abdullah who is involved in the multimillion cricket scam should have been in the jail if he would have been a politician of any other part of the country. And, similarly, if Haji Yousuf episode would have happened in any other chief minister's home he would had faced the law.
She said it was only with the change of guard in the state in 2002 the Vajpayee government could take up historical initiatives in Kashmir which got immense relief in the lives of people. And, later, the improved situation on the ground in J&K could help to bring India and Pakistan together.
"Using the people's mandate to seek power instead of working to uphold the aspirations and sentiments of Kashmiris the NC leadership has served a big blow not just to its own credibility but to the people's faith also," she added.
Mehbooba said in 1975 NC backstabbed the people by giving up on the 'Raishumari' demand without caring about the sacrifices of the masses which they had given on its call; it (NC) repeated its deceit in 1987 by not allowing the enlightened youth to become part of the system. |
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