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| PDP firm on resisting divisive agenda of BJP: Mehbooba | | | Early Times Report
Banihal, Nov 3: Unfolding her party's development agenda for the Chenab Valley region, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president, Mehbooba Mufti today said in spite of being a store house of natural resources the area is steeped in poverty, backwardness and deprivation.
According to press release, addressing a large public meeting at Banihal, she said the people of Jammu and Kashmir need to rise above sectarian division and communal polarization to give a decisive and inclusive mandate to the PDP for equitable development of all regions and sub-regions.
Mehbooba said the state is facing an entirely new political scenario with BJP emerging in some areas as a major force and aiming at increasing its presence in the assembly through a divisive agenda that is based on communal polarization and sectarian differences.
Mehbooba said the PDP remains unflinchingly firm on resisting this divisive agenda of BJP as it defeated the NC and Congress in their designs to disempower the people of the state.
She said while the PDP will seriously work on dignified return and rehabilitation of the migrant Pandit community back to their homes BJP is now converting them into a political commodity by banking on their votes in a few Kashmir constituencies which they have targeted for victory and hopes that the poll boycott would help them in their designs.
"Such a negative strategy is harmful for any society but for a sensitive state like Jammu and Kashmir this could be out-rightly disastrous," cautioned Mehbooba. Mehbooba said the National Conference-Congress government has earned the anger and disapproval of the people all across the state because of its misdeeds, corruption, scandals, and inefficiency. She said the previous six years have witnessed the worst ever govt in the state and it was not a surprise that the coalition partners were dumped by the people.
Mehbooba said the people of Jammu and Kashmir are politically conscious to understand the changed political equations of the state. She said whereas NC-Congress parties have collapsed as political organizations the contest now is directly between PDP and BJP.
She said the formation of next government by PDP was a foregone conclusion but it is in the hands of the people how strong a mandate they would give to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed to address the heavy challenges the state is faced with.
She said during the Lok Sabha elections the voters of the Chenab Valley had almost rallied behind the Congress in a bid to stop the BJP.
But, their effort didn't prove enough and it is now time that they wholeheartedly vote for PDP along with people from other regions.
Mehbooba said even though the water resources of the Chenab Valley area benefits large population outside the state also the people residing here lack amenities of fundamental nature and it looks that it is not part of the 21st century world. "The PDP will work on a development agenda that would focus on employment generation and infrastructure development in the districts of the region so that its large potential is harnessed for the betterment of its people," she added. Mehbooba said the scarcity of agricultural lands in the mountainous districts has always forced the people there to seek employment of different natures, and it was legitimate for them to expect that the construction of mega projects in hydropower, railways or highway construction would provide opportunities for skilled and unskilled workers. But, unfortunately the openings were either politically exploited or filled up through non-locals.
"PDP would make it incumbent on the executing agencies of various projects to give preference to locals and invest in skilled development of the youth so that a workforce is created that helps to tap the human resource of the area which could ultimately find job opportunities anywhere," said Mehbooba.
Senior party leader, Peer Mohammad Hussain; Bashir Ahmad Runiyal, candidate for Banihal assembly segment; Abdul Ahad, district president Ramban; FarooqAhmad Mir, ex-MLA; Advocate Khaliq Nizami; Bahar Ahmad Runiyal; Abdul Aziz Katoch were also present and spoke on the occasion.
Along with Mohammad Iqbal, Farooq Ahmad and Tariq Wani hundreds of people join the party on the occasion. |
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