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| Beginning of new era: Farooq | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Dec 30: The National Conference- Congress government will usher in a new era of deveopment in Jammu and Kashmir and help better India-Pakistan relations, NC patron Farooq Abdullah said on Tuesday.
"It will be a new era in the development of the state as well as in the relationship of not only Abdullahs and Gandhis, but also better relationship between India and Pakistan", said the 72-year-old father of Chief Minister- designate Omar Abdullah here.
The senior Abdullah, who himself was a claimant to the top job, said India and Pakistan would have to try to get the separatists on the "main table" so that they do not feel alienated and were brought to the mainstream for talks "so that a final and durable solution to this (Kashmir) problem of 60 years can be achieved."
Voicing "delight" at the coming together of NC and Congress to form a new government in the border state, he said, "National Conference and Congress have been partners for many decades right from (the time of) Sheikh Sahib (Sheikh Abdullah) and Jawaharlal Nehru.
"Today that relationship has been further strengthened by the reunion in trying to build this state again towards better development, towards better future for the people of the state, which I think is very good," he said.
The NC patron said while it was upto the new Chief Minister to speak on the priorities of the new government, he would want the coalition to work on generating new employment opportunities and improve the health infrastructure.
"I want the new government to look at the unemployment that is here. Boys and girls who are looking forward to a better future...they must work towards that," Abdullah said.
He said the government must "improve the lot of the people by getting more work, by improving roads, water supply, electricity, better hospitals...We may have to construct some new hospitals and improve old hospitals."
Abdullah said roads were another priority area which the new government should address.
"Roads are in a bad shape...I have been to places where there are no roads. The government has a long-long process but they will have to start on these things," he added.
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