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| Farooq is warlord: PDP | | | ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 31
Getting into a reconciliatory course with the Congress, its embittered ally Peoples Democratic Party has now trained its guns on the National Conference as party fans out to the public to test grounds in run up to next assembly elections.
After an year and half of scathing attacks on the coalition partner Congress for gaining a dominant edge in the Valley, the PDP seems to have realised the importance of working with the partners and digging for the opposition.
For the last few days, the attacks of the PDP leaders including Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and other senior leaders are sharply pointed towards the National Conference and its leaders Dr Farooq Abdullah is now being blamed for all the miseries of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly the militancy.
The PDP leaders, while justifying their attacks on the National Conference, today said that every time when troubled erupted between India and Pakistan, the then CM Dr Farooq Abdullah always provoked New Delhi to go in for war which, they said, could have brought devastation. They said that pulling out of the war mindset the PDP has put in place an atmosphere of peace and friendship which was not possible if the National Conference were in ruling position.
Addressing a public meeting in Baramulla, where party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed also spoke, the senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig said, "the Kargil war was on and the two countries were at loggerheads with each other. Even they were at the brink of nuclear war. But PDP transformed the entire situation in the State and the sub-continent after it was formed in 1999," said Baig, while addressing a function organized in connection with the Foundation day celebrations of PDP here today.
Lashing out at National Conference, Baig said the then chief minister Farooq Abdullah had advocated an atomic war on Pakistan to annihilate the country. "During the Kargil war, Farooq Sahib as Chief Minister of the State had advocated dropping of atomic bomb on Pakistan if India wanted an everlasting solution to the Kashmir issue. Farooq sahib even said that he has directed the Director General of police to shoot at site any suspected person as there was no space for them in jails," he said.
Baig remarked that PDP after taking over the reigns of power in the state changed the animosity between the two countries into ever-growing amity. He added that PDP formulated a program which would encourage the harmony between India and Pakistan. "After all how long these countries can afford to invest thousands of crores on defense budgetary when around 14 crore people in India are without permanent shelters. Pakistan shares the same ground reality," he said.
Baig said what the successive governments in the State couldn't do in last 50 years, the newly born regional party (PDP) did it in just three years of power and left indelible marks of its achievements across the length and breadth of the State.
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