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| Time for NC’s exit: Mufti | | | Early Times Report
Budgam, May 5: Dubbing National Conference as a stooge on New Delhi, the Peoples Democratic Party leader has said that the ruling party has completely run out of people’s confidence and it is time to formalize its exit from the State’s political arena once and for all.
Addressing an impressive public meeting at Budgam, on the last day of campaigning for Srinagar parliamentary constituency today, Sayeed said people must exercise their vote positively to rid the State of the party that symbolizes our miseries and misfortune. “Use your vote decisively as this is the only potent weapon available to us” he told the impressive gathering that braved heavy downpour and chill to attend the meeting.
Mufti said the NC leadership was fully aware that it had lost Jammu and Kashmir because of its wrong policies and repeated betrayal of the State’s cause. That is why, he said, the NC leaders were sending distress signals to Delhi to come to their rescue. But unfortunately for them no prominent leader had responded to Dr Farooq Abdullah’s plea for campaigning for him in Srinagar and he has now to remain content with whosoever is available to share stage with him.
The PDP patron said people of Srinagar owe it to themselves and fellow countrymen, not to let their power to determine the State’s destiny be used by default by the NC. He said it was as a result of low polling percentage in Srinagar in 2008 assembly polls that NC was able to manipulate numbers in the Assembly poll against the sentiment of people which generally did not favor its rule. Let that not happen this time, he cautioned.
Referring to NC’s history of betrayals and sell-outs, Mufti said he had always cautioned the people against the policies of this party which wanted power at any cost. He said NC had misled people throughout its existence and had not learnt any lessons from either its own fate or the plight of the State. That is why, he said, successive generations of our people had suffered worst tribulations, deprivation, violence and powerlessness.
The PDP Patron said nobody could miss the fact that after the emergence of PDP the resolution of Kashmir problem had become a mainstream agenda. He said it was no more the ordained duty of J&K Chief Minister to call for annihilation of Pakistan as one-point solution to Kashmir problem or keep abusing those seeking people’s rights.
But, unfortunately, Mufti said the clock was being turned back by the new coalition led by the NC. “Arrests, crackdowns and enforced poll boycotts will only take us back to wherefrom we had got the State back in 2002” he said and cautioned of imminent disaster if the cycle of alienation was not controlled through positive and proactive measures.
PDP candidate for Srinagar parliamentary constituency Moulvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, PDP leaders Ghulam Nabi Lone (Hanjoora), Javed Mustafa Mir, Ghulam Hassan Geelani, Peerzada Mansoor Hussain, Saif-ud-Din Bhat and Mohammad Kamal also addressed the meeting.
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