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| Mir’s party takes shape | | Teammates: Sarfaraz, Bawan, Wahi etc | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | May 7
Posing a challenge to the Peoples Democratic Party, its insider and rebel Ghulam Hassan Mir has finally come up with his own party –Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Party.
Armed with some dissidents of the parent party and another seasoned politician of Valley, Mir claimed that his party will be a viable democratic alternative to the Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference. Interestingly, shortly ahead of launching his party, Ghulam Hassan Mir had called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi last week. His meeting with the Prime Minister was an apparent bid to tell people that he has strong blessing of New Delhi.
Among the star supporters of Mir are PDP’s MLA from Beerwah Sarfaraz Khan, former MLA GM Bawan and a Jammu based businessman Kuldeep Wahi.
It may be mentioned here that Mir had won the 2002 election on a PDP ticket. The rebel leader 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.
"The J&K Democratic Party with its urban and rural base would work for permanent peace in the state by achieving political, economic and social rights of the people with emphasis on economic self-reliance," Mir said, while launching his party in Srinagar today. “Let us now start a kind of politics that brings glory to the state”, said Mir.
He said that with the improvement in the relations of India and Pakistan and a respite from the tension in the state, a space has been generated to address to the genuine problems of the people of state.
Mir said, "Our party shall act as facilitators in the India-Pakistan peace process on Kashmir." He said that JKDP would work for achieving the goal of 'self-reliance' and would not mislead the common masses in the name of emotional slogans.
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.
Mir said that Jammu and Kashmir would emerge as a producer state than a consumer state as it has to bring in each and every commodity from outside. He said that regional parties have turned into personal fiefdoms of a few families and Jammu Kashmir Democratic party would fight against family rule in the state. |
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