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| In right beginning from wrong end, Omar says coalition has failed | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 18
After taking some spent forces in the party fold, the National Conference president Omar Abdullah is upbeat about his prospects as he embarks on a well declared elections campaign.
Omar has started his public outreach program from a wrong end of Jammu and Kashmir. After addressing a "massive" public meeting at Lakhanpur –the gateway of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar will be meeting people in Kathua for next three days. However, the history is witness that the National Conference has hardly got anything from Kathua district.
Political analysts believe that Omar is trying to walk on the footprint of his illustrious grandfather Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah. On being released from the jail following historic Indira-Sheikh accord of 1975, Sheikh Abdullah too had begin with his public outreach program from Kathua district.
Though there was little to bank upon Kathua, but the public response to Sheikh continued to thicken as he moved farther to reach Srinagar over the next week. Omar too, observers feel, may have plans to begin from the tail end and reach the head in Srinagar while testing waters on the way.
Seemingly having attained little more political maturity, the young Abdullah does not have any Kashmiri leader as a part of his entourage. He has with him the faces of Jammu including Choudhary Talib Hussain, Ajay Sadhotra and Devinder Singh Rana.
While addressing public meeting in Lakhanpur today, Omar said that the much hyped promise of "Khushaal Kashmir" doled out by the coalition government has remained just a hollow promise because of the ruling coalition's failure to deliver. Omar who started his state wide mass contact programme here today, said in 2002 the coalition government came to power on the basis of tall promises but unfortunately the state government in the last five and half years has not been able to perform and live upto the expectations of the people. The total breakdown of administrative machinery during the coalition rule and rampant corruption has taken the state backwards.
Omar said there is an unprecedented rise in corruption and the corruption is in the highest echelon of the administration and political setup. He said it is the state's misfortune that it is being governed by a tainted political setup which is not working for the welfare of the people of the state.
Omar said the youth of Jammu and Kashmir are disheartened and disillusioned because the government has not been able to provide any employment avenues and nor has it been able to come out with an economic policy which could address the problem of unemployment in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Omar said National Conference, if voted to power will come out with a comprehensive economic policy which will delineate an economic structure which will provide for adequate employment for the people of the state. |
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