Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: The much awaited Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting proved to a dump squib because majority of the participants only indulged into sycophancy of the inept leadership. Instead of pin-pointing communal and anti-minority approach being adopted by the top leadership, majority of the participants hailed high command to 'excellent' performance in the Parliamentary elections in which party has performed worst.
Credible sources said that party patron Muzaffar Hussain Beigh maintained silence but other leaders were indulged into sycophancy. "There was competitive sycophancy among members of the Political Affairs Committee because majority of the participants wanted to be in good book of the leadership", sources said and revealed that none of the leader mustered guts to ask high command about lowest ever turn-out in the Bijbehara Assembly segment which is home town of party supremo Mehbooba Mufti.
Meanwhile, party in an official handout stated that the concerns were expressed by the members of Political Affairs Committee of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples' Democratic Party which met here under the chairmanship of party president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, Abdul Rahman Veeri, Abdul Haq Khan, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, Dr Mehboob Beg, Rafi Ahmad Mir, Sartaj Madni, Naeem Akhtar, Peerzada Mansoor Hussain, Mohammad Ashraf Mir, Nizam-ud-din Bhat, Firdous Tak, Choudhary Hameed, Ved Mahajan, Tarlok Singh Bajwa and several others also participated.
"The party held a threadbare discussion about the current political situation within the state of Jammu and Kashmir besides the measures to be taken to strengthen the party at the gross root level," PDP's Chief Spokesman Rafi Ahmad Mir said after the meet.
The participants observed that the onslaught on the special status of Jammu and Kashmir was multi-dimensional and every attempt was being made to politically disempower the citizens of the state. "It was also felt that while in some parts of the state the voters are being unified for the common cause there were parallel efforts being made in other parts of Jammu and Kashmir to create a vertical political split in order to chock and curb regional aspirations," the spokesman said. |
