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| PDP has emerged as real political voice of J&K: Mufti | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Pulwama, Apr 20- Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has said the party’s visionary political and economic agenda has made it to emerge as a genuine, strong and credible regional voice of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. ‘Given its exclusive regional agenda, PDP has now become the real political voice of the State,” he said.
Addressing a series of election rallies in Rajpora and Pulwama assembly segments of Anantnag parliamentary constituency today, Sayeed said when it took over in 2002, PDP-led coalition Government, not only rekindled a new hope among the State’s distressed, agonized and traumatized masses, but it had also devised and started implementing focused developmental strategies for every area of the State. “After suffering decades of deprivation and neglect, for the first time all the regions and sub-regions of the State had started tasting development with the change of guard in 2002,” he said and added that the signposts of the landmark developmental initiatives set off between 2002 and 2005 are visible in every nook and corner of the State. “We shall have to restart from where we left in 2005,” he said.
Sayeed said immediately after taking over in 2002, while his Government’s foremost priority was to give a sense of security to the people, the relaxation in the security environment was effectively supplemented with relief through development and economic rejuvenation. He said whether in or outside the power, PDP would work towards implementing its unaccomplished agenda of securing peace, stability and prosperity for Jammu & Kashmir. “PDP’s agenda is to ensure political, economic, job and social security for the potentially gifted people of the State and we would realize this dream one day,” he said and added that Jammu & Kashmir is not a place that needs packages and doles; it has to be given the freedom and assistance to realize its immense economic potential.
The PDP Patron said there are no limits to the State’s economic potential and in addition to its rich water and mineral resources, the brand name Kashmir has many dimensions – be it tourism, art, handicrafts, forests or agricultural and horticultural products. He said the PDP’s vision of a peaceful, stable and prosperous Jammu & Kashmir outlined in its Self-Rule document is essentially about neutralizing the historical political and economic excesses with the State that were compounded by its natural and political geography.
Stressing the need for quality intra and inter-state connectivity, Sayeed said lack of good road communication network is one of the reasons for the State’s sluggish economic progress.
While expressing gratitude to the people of Pulwama and Shopian for having given a clear mandate to the PDP in the 2008 assembly elections, Sayeed said he is expecting a similar gesture from the emancipated voters of the area during the ongoing parliamentary polls.
PDP candidate for Anantnag parliamentary constituency Peer Mohammad Hussain, legislators Mohammad Khalil Bandh and Sayed Bashir Ahmad and PDP leader and former legislator Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Mir also addressed the meetings.
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