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| After NC, PDP resumes political activities in Kashmir | | |
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Mar 13: With the National Conference (NC) having resumed its political activities in Srinagar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has also started holding such conventions in the summer capital.
While the NC conventions sounded largely apolitical, the PDP events are looking ahead to make more people join the party folds.
On March 3, the PDP youth leadership held a convention which among others was attended by Qayoom Mohsin and Arif Laigaroo. At the convention, the lower-rung leadership asked the people of Kashmir especially youth to join the party ranks. The event was held within a week of a party convention organized by PDP leader Abdul Hameed Koshin in Srinagar.
Interestingly, at all such events, the PDP leadership has been seeking release of the party president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, presently booked under the Public Safety Act.
Since the abrogation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, Mehbooba has been behind the bars and is presently lodged at a government accommodation on the MA Road in Srinagar.
Sources said initially the PDP had decided not to hold any party conventions till Mebooba was released. “But after some other regional parties started their activities, we thought why to stay back and it was unanimously resolved to resume ‘some level of activity’,” said a PPD leader on the condition of anonymity.
Interestingly none of the PDP leaders who were released from prison after the arrest in the wake of abrogation of Article 370 have ever attended any such political meeting or event.
While many of those released from prison, left the party to join other groups, others stayed away from party activities. But a PDP leader downplayed the matter. “Even they(NC leaders) released from prison are also not attending any party activities. So why to raise questions on our party,” the PDP said.
He said the party looks ahead for Mehbooba’s release to decide future course of action. |
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