Early times Report
Jammu, Nov 22: Despite visit of party president, Mehbooba Mufti to placate the annoyed lot, many senior PDP leaders from Jammu are going to quit the party in coming days.
Feeling ‘suffocated and humiliated’ by communal elements who have virtually hijacked the party, these senior leaders have decided to resign from the PDP to save their dignity.
“It is not possible to work in the present scenario because party leadership is listening only to communal elements who avail every opportunity to humiliate those who worked with late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed”, wishing anonymity, a senior PDP told The Early Times. “Many senior leaders are going to quit the party”, he said and added that instead of pursuing the visionary and secular agenda of Mufti Sayeed the incumbent leadership is following communal agenda just to address one constituency.
Pertinent to mention here that three senior leaders of the PDP had resigned citing Mehbooba Mufti’s “actions and undesirable utterances”, reports said on Monday. The PDP leaders TS Bajwa, Ved Mahajan and Hussain Ali Waffa, had resigned from the PDP on October 26.
They said in the letter that they were “feeling quite uncomfortable over some of her actions and undesirable utterances especially which hurt patriotic sentiments”.
“Instead of overcoming the challenges from within and outside by a process of broader consultations and trust, some elements within the party pulling the party and leadership in a particular direction, thus deviating from the basic principles, agenda and philosophy, making it difficult to face the saner voices in the society,” they added. |
