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| PDP dampener as former Gen Secy joins NC | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | May 7
The People's Democratic Party, which shares power with the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, suffered a setback as two influential leaders quit the party to join National Conference and People's Democratic Forum, while a rebel leader floated a new political outfit.
Ghulam Hassan Mir, who was expelled from the PDP for indulging in "anti-party" activities earlier this year, on Wednesday floated the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Party (JKDP). The rebel leader, who represents Gulmarg Assembly constituency, has long maintained that the PDP was "no more a democratic party" and had turned into a fiefdom of former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and his daughter and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.
PDP's former general secretary Javid Ahmed Dar, who had quit the party recently, joined the opposition National Conference, while veteran trade union leader Ishtiaq Qadri joined the PDF headed by Transport Minister Hakeem Mohammad Yaseen.
"The newly-floated party aims at striving for permanent peace in the state, thereby achieving objective of political, economic and social rights of the people of the state with special emphasis on economic self reliance," Mir told reporters after announcing his party's name. He said his party would work hard for the equitable development of all three regions of the state -- Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Training his guns at the PDP leadership, Mir said the people of the state have been "threatened" emotionally by raising unrealistic and irrelevant issues and fed with hollow slogans. |
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