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| Handover Dulhasti, Salal or face mass movement: PDP to Delhi | | | Early Times Report
Kishtwar, April 19: Peoples Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday warned to launch a mass movement if unfair water sharing agreements were not scrapped and Dulhasti as well as Salal hydroelectric projects were not handed over the State. She further warned that her party workers would also come on streets to force the New Delhi to compensate the losses suffered by the Jammu and Kashmir State due to discriminatory Indus Water Treaty singed by the then National Conference government headed by Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1952.
Addressing a public meeting at Kishtwar in support of party candidate Balbir Singh, Mehbooba Mufti said that her party’s demand of scarping all unfair agreements signed with the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) for the exploitation of natural resources in Jammu and Kashmir.
“For the lust of power, the National Conference has bartered natural resources of the State by signing unfair agreements with the NHPC”, she said while referring towards the water sharing agreement signed by the NC government in 2000 with the then Union Power Minister Kumaramanglam.
“No state in the country would barter its resources in such a reckless manner as was done by the NC government by handing over seven power projects to NHPC under an arbitrary agreement signed by it with the Union Power Ministry”, she said, as per Press Bureau of India.
“Being custodian of the interests of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, PDP would not remain a mute spectator to all such deals”, she asserted and warned to launch a agitation to restore rights of the State as according to her, the State has already been suffering a recurring loss of Rs 650 crore per annum because of discriminatory IWT treaty.
Referring towards recommendations of the Working Group headed by former RBI Governor C Rangarajan on Economic Reconstruction, PDP chief that it was recommended that NHPC projects namely Dulhasti and Salal hydro electric projects should be handed over to Jammu and Kashmir government. She, however, regretted that no decision has been taken on these recommendations. “We have given an ultimatum to the Union Government to implement these recommendations otherwise PDP workers along with people of all regions would come on streets”, she warned and added that PDP would not hesitate to take any extreme step to get such worst kind of injustice removed.
“National Conference has been gradually wiping out from the political scene of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP has been replacing this party”, she said while referring towards declining voting percentage of NC. Although NC has got more seats yet PDP secured 60,000 more than NC” she said and decision of former Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah to contest elections forth time during the last four months reflects bankruptcy in the NC. “NC does not have candidates to join electoral battle so in every elections Farooq Abdullah is himself fight elections”, she pointed out and exuded confidence that strengthen of PDP would be increased in the assembly after the by-elections.
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