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| ‘Omar wept on Varun to please patrons in Sangh Parivar’ | | Mehbooba says CM didn’t keep one promise in 100 days | |
ET Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 3: The Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President, Mehbooba Mufti, today claimed that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was still in the honeymoon gear of his government as, according to her, he had failed to keep any one of his election time promises in the last 100 days of the NC-Congress regime in Jammu & Kashmir. She said that a former Minister in the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, Mr Abdullah had shed his tears on Varun Gandhi’s National Security Act (NSA) only to please his Sangh Parivar patrons ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in India.
Expressing surprise overOmar Abdullah’s disapproval of slapping NSA on BJP’s Varun Gandhi for his “venomous anti-Muslim utterances”, Ms Mufti said that J&K CM’s remarks haad once again exposed the “deceitful politics” of the National Conference (NC) leadership. She was addressing a meeting of her senior party leaders and workers here today.
“While on one hand Omar Abdullah is enjoying power in the State with the Congress, he is at the same time trying to keep his old friends in the BJP in good humor for a future alliance post-Lok Sabha polls,” Mehbooba said. She said that by opposing NSA against Varun Gandhi, Omar was only endorsing the stand of the right-wing groups like RSS, Bajrang Dal and VHP on the issue.
Mehbooba said instead of shedding tears over the plight of Varun Gandhi, it would have been advisable for Omar Abdullah to show same concern for the hundreds of Kashmiri detenues booked under the draconian Public Safety Act (PSA).
“Although, Omar Abdullah has not kept his election promise of releasing all the political detenues within one week of the formation of his government, it would have been appropriate if he had at least shown similar concern for them as he did for Varun Gandhi,” she said and added that the recent release and instant arrest of the separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah was only a depiction of how the special laws were being misused in the State by the NC-led coalition government.
Accusing Omar Abdullah of spending more time on political poaching than delivering on the governance front, Mehbooba said instead of using his position and resources to poach on his political rivals, the Chief Minister should concentrate on mitigating the sufferings of the people that he had promised to do during his election campaigning.
Reminding Omar Abdullah of the commitments made by him during electioneering, Mehbooba said the people want to know where is the much-parroted Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human rights violations, where have the one lakh jobs that were to be given in the first month of the new government gone, what happened to the promise of one job to each family, where is the stipend for the educated unemployed youth, what happened to the commitment of bringing down educational qualification for recruitment of police constables to middle pass and last but not least there is also no word from the Government about removing the electricity meters, slashing the power tariff, making electricity available round-the-clock and subsidizing the LPG and rations promised by NC during electioneering.
PDP Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Vice-President Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, senior leaders Abdul Rehman Veeri, Sayed Altaf Bukhari, Shahzadi Simon, Abdul Hameed Kohsheen and Mohammad Ashraf Mir were among those who participated in the PDP meeting. |
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