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| Joint Council with Pak a historic necessity: Mehbooba | | ‘NC has exposed itself as a power broker’ | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, May 28:
Peoples’ Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti has described the establishment of a joint council between the two parts of the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir as a historic necessity to neutralize the negative impact of partition and pursue joint projects for a prosperous future. Addressing a workers meet of her party in Handwara today she said if representatives of the two parts of the state can meet as they have been for many years now in different countries and cities of the world to discuss their mutual affairs why should the establishment of a permanent institution in the shape of a joint council be seen as unrealistic. Mehbooba said if we have to get over the bitter past there was no alternative to lifting the siege around Jammu and Kashmir and allowing the state to interact with the Pak administered part through a creative agenda of trade, development and joint projects in sectors like power, tourism and environment.Referring to the problems of border areas Mehbooba said it was a sad fact that as a result of partition entire state had become a dead-end as all the historic and traditional routes connecting it to out side world had been closed but the border areas had suffered the most. Mehbooba said NC has failed to contribute to the emerging political scenario in the state and has instead adopted a stance unfavorable to democratic functioning and competition. “It is unfortunate that state’s oldest party has lost its political moorings and exposed itself completely among the people as a party that only was interested in power at any cost” she told the meeting in which the recently elected Panchs and Sarpanchs from the area also prominently participated.Mehbooba said the results of Panchayat polls were a verdict on functioning of present coalition led by NC. In political terms it has had a similar impact as the Assembly polls in 2002 had “but we know the NC would continue to stick to its ways of arrogance and deceit without trying to pick up the massage from the people”. She said from the latest revelations carried by the Greater Kashmir it has now turned out how the 1975 accord had resulted in not just political humiliation of the state but also had set the procedure for selling out of our water and power resources.
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